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hardly exact to say that T drew such an inference — 

 it was not a matter for inference^ but of fact. 

 G. N. stated that be possessed " an edition of 

 Swift's Works hy Faulkener, dated 1734." I could 

 not venture to deny positively the existence of a 

 volume which G. N. stated that he had in his hand, 

 but I expressed as clearly as civility allowed a 

 doubt as to the accuracy of the statement, which, 

 it now turns out, was erroneous in the most im- 

 portant particulars. G. N., it appears, has been 

 puzzling himself and us about (as P. O. S. has 

 shown) an odd and mutilated volume of the very 

 commonest edition of "Swift's Works," not worth 

 6t?. on any book-stall. 



And so this bubble bursts ; but it seems to me 

 worth special notice as a warning to all of us, 

 contributors to "N. & Q.," to be scrupulously and 

 minutely accurate in propounding the matters 

 submitted for discussion. 



1. i/G. N. possessed, as he stated, any edition 

 of Swift's by Faulkener, it must have been a 

 piracy : for Faulkner never so spelled his name. 



2. If G. N. possessed, as he stated, " an edition 

 of Swift's Works" dated 1734, it would be unique 

 and a great literary curiosity. 



3. If the plate in G. N.'s volume had been, as 

 he states, " a good likeness, and altogether a well- 

 executed subject" it could hardly have been mis- 

 taken for one that seemed to me "a vei'y poor 

 performance^'' and which P. O. S. calls a " misera- 

 ble portrait." 



4. If G. N. had not stated and restated that his 

 plate has not the letters " Vert, nor any engraver s 

 mark" on the face of it, it would have been at 

 once identified as the plate of Faulkner's edition 

 of 1735; and P. O. S., and I, and the readers of 

 " N. & Q.," would have been spared this ridicu- 

 lous discussion de land caprind. C. 



PHOTOGEAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Photographic Portraits. — The Series of Portraits of 

 Men of the Time, which Messrs. Maull and Polyblank are 

 issuing under the title of Photographic Portraits of Living 

 Celebrities, increases in interest as it proceeds, and will 

 form a work which generations yet to come will turn over 

 with great curiosity. Three more numbers have been 

 issued. No. 3. furnishes us with a good portrait of that 

 most eminent engineer, Robert Stephenson ; in No. 4. we 

 have a characteristic, but far from flattering, likeness of 

 one of the most original- minded and independent-spirited 

 men in the House of Commons, Mr. Roebuck ; and No. 6. 

 puts before us a life-like picture of Sir Benjamin Brodie, 

 with that expression of calm self-possession which one 

 should look for in the head of a profession in which that 

 quality is so eminently called for. 



Death of Mr. Leachman. — It is with great regret that 

 we announce to our photographic readers the death of Mr. 

 John Leachman, whose contributions to the photographic 

 department of our First Series, though not very numerous, 

 occupied him many hours in chemical research and in- 



vestigation, and were of great value and interest. Mr. 

 Leachman's acquaintance with chemistry and its applica- 

 tions was profound and accurate; he had been a pupil of 

 Graham's at University College, and was subsequently an 

 ardent student at the College of Chemistry', under Air. 

 Hoffman; and his contributions to "N. &Q." brought 

 him in communication with the first chemists in the 

 country. He died at Margate on Frida}% Sept. 19, after a 

 short but severe illness (bronchitis followed by rheu- 

 matic neuralgia), brought on by lying on damp grass. 

 He is interred at St. Peter's Church,' Isle of Thanet. 



What is a " Pisayn f " — In " N. &. Q.," P' S. 

 i. 101. 236. 266. 299. there occurred some corre- 

 spondence on this matter, but no satisfactory ex- 

 planation of this term in ancient armour was 

 elicited. Mr. T. Hudson Turner (now, alas ! no 

 more) states that he has his own " conjecture on 

 the subject," but does not give It, contenting him- 

 self with demolishing Sir S. Meyrick's assertion 

 that it was formed of "over-lapping plates." I 

 have lately met the term " pisayn " coupled with 

 a habergeon, or short shirt, of mail in the "Rental 

 of Gerald Earl of Kildare " (Harlelan MS. 3756.), 

 where the earl, in 1514, records his gifts of "ha- 

 berlons " and " pisayns " to various persons, thus : 

 " Itin to OKerroU a haberlon et a pisayn." Query, 

 Was a pisayn the camall or gorget of mall found 

 sculptured on Irish monumental effigies of this 

 period ? James Graves, Clk. 



Kilkenny. 



Sandys' Ovid (P' S. xil. 372.) —I beg to in- 

 form your correspondent that I have an edition of 

 Geo. Sandys' translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses, 

 the preface of which is exactly similar to that 

 quoted by Mr. Blackwell, except that it is 

 called " this second edition " instead of " this the 

 second," &c. This edition Is dated 1640, so that 

 there were two editions, both called the second, 

 one dated 1632, and another 1640. 



The dedication is also substantially the same as 

 Mr. Blackwell's copy, except that instead of 

 " Laurels" in my copy it is " travels " {i. e. tra- 

 vails). C. J. Douglas. 



ReoJion and Understanding, according to Cole- 

 ridge (1" S. v. 535. 590.) —At the first reference 

 I asked some questions on this subject, which 

 Caspar, at the second reference, was kind enough 

 to answer. That answer was based on the fol- 

 lowing assertion, viz., that according to Coleridge, 

 " Instinct Is distinguishable In degree from under- 

 standing, reason Is distinguishable from it in kind. ' 

 Now I am far from admitting that even on this 

 assumption (for it is nothing more) Caspar has 

 succeeded In resolving the apparent contradictions 

 involved in Coleridge's statements ; but in point 



