Mr. Lyte's Mode of Printing.—All persons who have experienced disappointment in the printing of their positive pictures will feel obliged by Mr. Lyte's suggestion as to the bath; but as the preparation of the positive paper has also a great deal to say to the ultimate result, Mr. Lyte would confer an additional obligation if he gave the treatment he adopts for this.
I have observed that the negative collodion picture exercises a good deal of influence on the ultimate colour of the positive, and that different collodion negatives will give different results in this respect, when the paper and treatment with each has been precisely the same. Does this correspond with other persons' experience?
C. E. F.
Replies to Minor Queries.
Eulenspiegel or Ulenspiegel (Vol. vii., pp. 357. 416. 507.).—Mr. Thoms's suggestion, and his quotation in proof thereof from the Chronicler, are farther verified by the following inscription and verses which I transcribe from an engraved portrait of the famous jester:
"Ulenspiegel.
"Ligt Begraben zu Dom in Flandern in der grosen Kirch, auf dem Grabister also Likend abgebildet. Starb Ao. 1301."
These lines are above the portrait, and beneath it are the verses next following:
"Tchau Ulenspiegeln hier. Das Bildniss macht dich lachen: