Simple as is this contrivance, the figure drawn on a plane surface will be given a natural perspective as wonderful as entertaining.
THE ENCHANTED LOOKING-GLASS.
Take a life-size picture of a man in a full-bottomed wig, or a lady in a head-dress with head and shoulders only shown, and, having cut out the face and all the background, glue it to the back of a looking-glass, from which you have scraped away all the quicksilver just where this cut-out picture goes.
Undertake to show any one his forefather, or her ancestress, as the case may be, in their habiliments as they lived, and, on standing before the mirror, their face will be reflected in the vacant place.
Fig. 127.
THE OCULAR AND OLFACTORY HARPSICHORD.
Reverends Père Castel and the Abbé Poncell have constructed, on the supposed connection of flavours, perfumes, and colours, the following amusing scales:—
| Ut | blue | sharp. |
| Ut dièze | sea-green | |
| Re | bright green | sickly, insipid. |
| Re dièze | olive | |
| Mi | yellow | sweet. |
| Fa | deep yellow | bitter. |
| Fa dièze | orange | |
| Sol | red | bitter-sweet. |
| Sol dièze | crimson | |
| La | violet | harsh. |
| La dièze | violet-blue | |
| Si | iris blue | piquant. |
It is true that a blind man, noted in ocular science, likened the blast of a trumpet to scarlet, and Shakspeare speaks of the sweet south wind, but for the greater part of the above comparisons there is a deficiency of authorities.