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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 254. 



It is taken from the "Cambridge University MS.," 

 D» V. 75., and, as the dates of other pieces in the 

 volume prove, was written between 1580 and 1600: 



" A foole or a phisicion, I know not whether 



His peniier hath and inck horn all in one ; 

 Kept in an eeles skin, or in a case of leather, 



And made of clay converted to a stone: 

 His cotton is of dark deroied grene. 



His matter all within his nose is pend. 

 And in the strangest guise y' may be seene 



He drawes his incke out of a candel's end. 

 Herewith his missives round about he sendes, 



Till breath and beard and all the house do stink : 

 He wrings his neck and giueth to his freindes, 



' Hold galantes here, and to Galenus drink.' " 



C. H. 



PHOTOGBAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Photography and Anthropology. — The French journal 

 Im Lumiere, of the 19th August, and Le Compie Rendu de 

 V Academic des Sciences, of the 14th, are loud in their 

 praises of two photographs of human crania by M. Rous- 

 seau, the artist of the Photographic Zoologique, and who is, 

 we believe, a pupil of MM. Bayard and Niepce. In the 

 latter, M. Serres, a member of the Institute, enters at 

 great length into the merits of M. Rousseau's labours, and 

 the advantages to science which are likely to result from 

 this application of photography. We allude to the sub- 

 ject for the purpose of reminding our photographic friends 

 who visited the Exhibition at the commencement of the 

 present year, of the beautiful photograph of a Celtic cra- 

 nium exhibited by Dr. Diamond, and so claiming for our 

 distinguished countryman the merit due to him. In 

 January last we called, with Dr. Diamond, on a well- 

 known publisher, for the purpose of arranging for the 

 issue of a series of Photographs of Crania, as well as of 

 Portraits of the Insane, and regret that the difficulty of 

 multiplying copies of the works in sufllcient numbers has 

 as yet delaj'ed their publication. 



Photographic Manuals. — As every new work on the 

 beautiful, but as j'et imperfectly developed, art of photo- 

 graphy contains, in the experience of the respective 

 writer, some hints worth attending to, such of our 

 readers as are followers of it may be glad to have their 

 attention called to the following brochures : 



1. Photographic Manipulation. The Waxed Process of 

 Gustave Le Gray. Translated from the French, which 

 has been issued by Messrs. Knight and Son. 



2. Photographic Manipulation. The Collodion Process. 

 By Thomas H. Hennah, second edition ; published by the 

 same firm, and very valuable, as giving the results of the 

 experience of so skilful a practitioner as Mr. Hennah. 



3. Practical Photography on Glass and Paper, a Manual, 

 containing simple Directions for the production of Portraits, 

 Views, §fc. by the agency of Light, including the Collodion, 

 Albumen, Calotype, Waxed Paper, and Positive Paper 

 Processes, by Cliarles A. Long, issued by Messrs. Bland 

 and Long, and is the production of the last-named gentle- 

 man, and the instructions, being those of a practical pho- 

 tographer and man of science, will be found worth making 

 " a note of." 



IRtpllti ta ^tnor <!B.xitviti. 



Pictorial Editions of the Book of Common Prayer 

 (Vol. viii., p. 446.). — I think the following have 

 not yet been noticed : they both belonged to mem- 

 bers of my family : 



1. Printed by Thomas Guy, and sold by him at 

 the Oxford Arms on the West Side of y* Royal 

 Exchange, 12rao., London, 1682. It contains fifty 

 cuts ; the first a portrait of Charles II. by John 

 Drapentier. 



2. An engraved title-page (the only title-page), 

 headed " The Book of Common Prayer." The 

 view represents a would-be-Gothic perspective of 

 a three-aisle church, with an apsis, and. at the tran- 

 septs a screen is shown, 



3. Is prefixed to the beginning of Morning 

 Prayer, and represents a priest on his knees be- 

 fore the holy table, and people on their knees, 

 similar to the well-known cut in Sparrow. 



The other cuts seem to be similar to those de- 

 scribed by Jarltzberg, p. 446. There is no me- 

 trical version of the Psalms appended. There are 

 the Articles ; and immediately preceding " An 

 Order of Morning and Evening Prayer, to be 

 used on the 2nd of September, for the dreadful 

 Fire of London." Query, When was this form 

 discontinued? Though this book is dated 1682, 

 and has a portrait of Charles II., the prayer for 

 the king and royal family is for James, Queen 

 Mary, Catherine the queen dowager, Mary, Prin- 

 cess of Orange, and Princess Anne of Denmark. 



The otlier pictorial book in my possession is 

 1738, 18mo., printed by John Basket: the cuts 

 accord exactly with the description of those in 

 the 8vo. edition of the same date, noticed by the 

 same correspondent. 



And this seems a fit place to make a Note, i^ it 

 has not been already done, of an alteration made 

 in the Book of Common Prayer, upon the Irish 

 Union, by an Order in Council, dated January L» 

 1801. In the title-page, instead of "Church of 

 England," it was altered to "of the United Church, 

 of England and Ireland." * In the prayer for the 

 high court of Parliament, the word " dominions " 

 was put in loco " kingdoms ;" and so throughout 

 where the word occurred. H. T. Ellacombb. 



'■'■Peter Wilkins" (Vol. x., pp. 17. 112.).— Your 

 correspondent W.L.F. is quite mistaken in stating 

 " from a note transcribed at the time of the sale 

 [of Dodsley's assignments of copyrights] that the 

 author of Peter Wilkins was ' Robert Patlock [not 

 Pultock, as Leigh Hunt writes it, or Paltock^ as 

 Southey calls him].' " I have the original assign- 

 ment, amongst many others of Dodsley's, and on 

 referring to it I find the name distinctly written 

 in the assignment and in the autograph subscribed 

 " Paltock " The assignment, which describes him 



[* See «N. & Q.," Vol. vi., pp. 246. 351. — Ed.] 



