Minor Queries.
Hardening Steel Bars.—Can any of your readers inform me how thin, flat, steel bars (say three feet long) can be prevented from "running" crooked when hardened in water?
J. H. A.
Pierrepont.—Who was John Pierrepont of Wadworth, near Doncaster, who died July, 1653, aged 75.
A. F. B.
Diss.
Ceylon.—I should be much obliged to Sir James Tennent, if he would kindly inform me where the best map of Ceylon is to be got? such as are to be found in the atlases within my reach are only good enough to try a man's temper, and no more.
May I also take the liberty of asking how soon we may expect the appearance of Sir James Tennent's book on the history, &c. of Ceylon? a work which will be a great work indeed, if we have at all a fair specimen of its author's learning and powers in the Christianity in Ceylon.
Ajax.
Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting.—Would any of your correspondents direct me to some work giving me some information about the painters of the Dutch and Flemish schools, their biographers, their peculiarities, chefs-d'œuvre, &c.?