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surface of the wood before commencing. At present it is 

 more diflicalt to do so than to blacken it." 



Mr. Langton, in reply to a communication from the 

 editor of the Art Journal, writes : 



" It is four years since I first tried to find some way of 

 getting photographs on wood; and it is now nearly a 

 year since (with tlie very able assistance of Mr. Beechey) 

 anything at all satisfactory was produced. From what 

 little experience I have had in engraving these photo- 

 graphs, I see no reason why the process should not be 

 extensively used ; but especially for some subjects, such 

 as portraits, architectural detail, and even landscapes, 

 where the view is not too extensive for the lens. And 

 for producing reduced copies of works of Art in general, 

 it would be invaluable." 



Mr. Lyt^s Instantaneous Process (Vol. x., p. 111.). — 



In answer to C. H. C, I am somewhat surprised that he 

 is unacquainted with a fact so very generally known to 

 photographers, as the solubility of iodide of silver in a 

 solution of the nitrate of the same base. The quantity 

 taken up by a thirty-grain solution is very small indeed ; 

 but quite enough to spoil several plates first immersed in 

 a new bath, unless it has been previously saturated with 

 the iodide of silver, hence the principal object of the pro- 

 ceeding. 1 have never taken notes of the actual quantity 

 capable of being dissolved in a solution of any given 

 strength, but, like the same salt in a solution of iodide of 

 potassium, the stronger tlie solution of nitrate the more of 

 the iodide it will take up. I believe Mr. Home of Newgate 

 Street has tested the exact weight, and I have no doubt 

 he would communicate the result. 



With regard to Mr. Lyte's process, I have unfortu- 

 nately not had time to try it one way or other ; but have 

 no doubt whatever that it succeeds in his hands. 



Geo. Shadbolt. 



SatpIiesT to Minox Cutties. 



Dovhle Christian Names (Vol. x., p. 18.). — 

 In the two quotations which Eeicas gives from 

 Co. Liu.., Lord Coke's meaning evidently was, 

 not that a man should not bear two Christian 

 names, but that though any one might change his 

 surname at pleasure, a change in his christian 

 name was permitted at his confirmation only. (See 

 Paper on Surnames, Archceologia, vol. xviii. 

 p. 105.) 



The instances of double christian names given 

 by your correspondents are, first, John James 

 Sandilands, 1564; and second, Henry Frederick 

 Stanley, the son of James, seventh Earl of Derby, 

 1635. 



I may add that of Thomas Pope Blount, ma- 

 triculated Trinity College, Oxford, 1574, being 

 then aged eighteen ; he therefore, having been 

 born in 1556, may in point of time have preceded 

 Sandilands. J. H. Markjland. 



"■Forgive, blest shade" (Vol. ix., p. 241.). — 

 These lines are said to have been, in the first 

 instance, inscribed upon the headstone of the 



g-ave of Mrs. Anne Berry, in the churchyard of 

 fading. Isle of Wight. 



In 1813, when I there read the epitaph, I was 

 informed that it was written by the clergyman of 

 the parish. 



In what year did Dr. Callcott set these lines to 

 music ? J. H. Mabkland. 



" JaA," in Psalm Ixviil. 4. (Vol. x., p. 105.). — 

 Vokaros will be assisted in his inquiries into this 

 alteration, by knowing that the Psalms, Epistles, 

 and Gospels in the Prayer-Book were not copied 

 from the Grreat Bible of Cranmer, 1539 and 1540, 

 in both of which the word "Ja" is correctly 

 printed ; but that they were taken from the Great 

 Bible revised by the Bishops of Durham and 

 Rochester, 1541, of which many editions were 

 subsequently printed. In all these the word no 

 longer appears in capitals, but in ordinary type, 

 " yea." Upon the restoration of Charles II. the 

 Convocation of 1661 made about six hundred 

 alterations* in the Prayer-Book, which were rati- 

 fied by the Act of Uniformity. Among these 

 alterations the Epistles and Gospels were ordered 

 to be read according to the last translation, but 

 the old version of the Psalter was retained. The 

 word "yea" was continued, in conformity with 

 the sealed book, until the eighteenth century. 

 It is so in Basket's edition, Svo., 1736. The first 

 edition altered to " Jah," in my humble collection 

 of Prayer-Books, is the beautifully-printed royal 

 Svo. by Baskerville, Cambridge, 1760. By what 

 authority the alteration was made does not appear. 

 The Scottish Psalter, being from the Genevan 

 version, has the word "Jah" from the earliest 

 editions. Geokgb Offob. 



Hackney. 



Singed VeUum (Vol. x., p. 106.). — In addition 

 to the information supplied by you, in answer to 

 Mb. Hutchinson's Query, I beg to observe that I 

 have several times witnessed the process of re- 

 storing the Cottonian MSS., and can assure that 

 gentleman that great skill, patience, and delicacy 

 of touch is required in the operation, as a MS., 

 when badly burnt, must be reduced to a state of 

 pulp before the lamincs can be separated. 



To IVIr. Henry Gough, sen., of Islington, belongs 

 the honour of having (under the direction of Sir 

 Frederick Madden) succeeded in restoring to use, 

 in a most admirable manner, the injured treasures 

 of the Cottonian library, some of which have 

 proved to be of the highest historical importance. 



Zz. 



Holy-loaf Money (Vol. ix., pp. 150. 256. 568.). 

 — The reply of Honorb de MAREViiiLE (Vol. ix., 

 p. 568.) reminds me that the custom he relates as 

 being common in Normandy and Brittany, I also 



• Dr. Tennison. See Stephen's Book of Common 

 Prayer, published for the Eccles. Hist Society, 1849, 

 vol. i. p. clxxi 



