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holding a heated poker before it at such a distance as to 

 melt it Rently, especially over such parts that are not 

 sufficiently transparent or brilliant : for the oftener heat 

 is applied'to the picture, the greater will be its brilliancy 

 and transparency of the colouring. But a contrary' effect 

 will be produced if too sudden or too great a degree of 

 heat be applied or for too long a time, because it will draw 

 the wax too much to the surface, and crack the paint. 



" Should the coat of wax upon the picture be anywhere 

 uneven, draw a moderately heated iron over it, as before 

 directed. When the picture is cold, rub it with a fine 

 linen cloth. 



"Paintings," says Mrs. Hooker, "may be executed in 

 this manner upon wood (having pieces of wood let in be- 

 hind across the grain to prevent its warping), canvas, 

 cardboard, or plaster of Paris. The latter requires no 

 other preparation than mixing some fine plaster of Paris 

 with cold water to the thickness of cream, and pouring it 

 on a looking-glass, prepared with a border of bees' wax, 

 of the form and thickness you require. When dry take 

 it off, and there will be a "fine smooth surface to paint 

 upon." 



This method of painting with wax and fire is 

 very brilliant and perdurable, as lasting as fresco- 

 painting, without its dry, harsh coldness, eminently 

 fitted for outdoor ornament and preservation, on 

 wood, stone or plaster edifices. At once conser- 

 vative and decorative, it would become an ad- 

 mirable adjunct to shrines, statues, columns, and 

 other monuments, preserving them from the 

 damps, salts and other deleterious exhalations of 

 our foggy and saline atmosphere, and readily 

 cleaned lay washing. Ships, wooden and stone 

 jetties, may be beautifully ornamented and pre- 

 served by encaustic or fire-painting ; nay, its uses 

 are innumerable. 



Had the Battle of the Magnetes in Lydia, the 

 most ancient painting on record, and for which 

 Candaules, King of Lydia, gave the painter, Bu- 

 larchup, in the eighteenth Olympiad, its weight 

 in gold, been executed by this process on the 

 marble wall of the great Temple of IVIagnesia, it 

 might now be the admiration of European con- 

 noisseurs in contiguity and companionship with 

 the other ancient paintings in the British Museum. 



James Elmes. 



20. Burnej' Street, Greenwich. 



iHtn0r ^aXei. 



Change in the Dedication of Churches. — The 

 principal church in the town of Bungay, Suffolk, 

 is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, and from the 

 evidence of an ancient chiirchwardens' account- 

 book, the parish appears always to have been, as 

 it is now, St, Mary's parish ; but in that account- 

 book, amongst the entries in the reign of Queen 

 Mary, is one for the setting up of the "ymages" 

 on the rood-loft again, — " that i?, the Mary and 

 John, and y* Vowes of the Churche ;" which cer- 

 tainly implies that the church was dedicated, not 

 to the Blessed Virgin, but to the Holy Cross. I 

 have found it called the Church of the Holy Cross 



in old charters ; and it was, in fact, the church of 

 the priory (whose ruins still stand to the east of 

 it), which was dedicated to the Holy Cross. There 

 is an instance at Wymondham, in the county of 

 Norfolk, where the " parish church" was originally 

 the nave of the "conventual church;" and the 

 other part of the church is now in ruins ; but I do 

 not remember whether this was a case of two 

 different dedications. The church at Bungay is 

 only the nave of the original church, but the 

 chancel was in use until the fire of 1689, so that 

 it is not precisely a parallel case. Could any of 

 your ecclesiological correspondents inform me of 

 an instance in which, without any recorded alter- 

 ation, such a change as this has ta^en place ? I 

 may add, as farther particulars toward a right un- 

 derstanding of this case, that there were altars in 

 both aisles of the church ; and the north aisle has 

 the appearance of having been built as a chapel 

 to it. There was also a detached chapel in the 

 cemetery, the dedication of which I have not yet 

 learned, which was converted into a "gramer 

 schole" at the Reformation. And the parish used 

 to pay annually to the prioress a small sum, now 

 paid to the lorcj of the manor of Bungay Priory, 

 the Duke of Norfolk, as " steeple rent." 



B. B. WOODWAED. 



Haverstock Hill. 



Pope. — In the Caledonian Mercury, Tuesday, 

 June 19, 1733, occurs the following entry : — 



" Mrs. Pope, mother of the first poet of this age, who 

 died ver5-rich, M'as interr'd on Monday night at Twicken- 

 ham. The supporters of her pall were six of the oldest 

 and poorest women of the parish, and six of the oldest 

 and poorest men carried her corpse. They all had mourn- 

 ing except gloves and hatbands, which were not allowed 

 the minister ; nor anj'- body to follow the corpse." 



J. M. 



Link between remote Periods. — A link with a 

 remote period has just passed away. Commander 

 Pickernell, R.N., who died on the 20th ult., aged 

 eighty-seven, knew well in his youth a man who 

 was a soldier encamped on Hounslow Heath at 

 the time of the Revolution in 1688. This same 

 man played an instrument in the band at Queen 

 Anne's coronation, and served through Marl- 

 borough's wars, and in his old age returned to 

 the neighbourhood of his native place, Whitby, 

 where he died, aged considerably ever a century, 

 when the late Commander Pickernell was a boy 

 about seven or eight years old. A. O. H. 



Blackheath. 



Piedmont not a Part of Italy. — No doubt many 

 of its readers, fresh from their sbhool lessons in 

 geography, must have suspected The Times was 

 playing with their credulity when, aboiit two 

 months ago, in order to humble the pretensions 

 of the Court of Turin, it asserted that the Italians 

 had not formerly been accustomed to consider 

 Piedmont a part of Italy. I have now before me 



