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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 181. 



tSte. Fique-nique est done, comme passe-passe, nn 

 compose de deux verbes ; II est dans I'analogie de 

 cette phrase, • Qui louche, mouille.' " 



Henby H. Breen. 



PETEE STERRY AND JEREMIAH WHITE. 



(Vol. iil., p. 38.) 



Your correspondent's inquiry with respect to 

 tlie missing MSS. of Peter Sterry, which were in- 

 tended to form a second volume of his posthumous 

 works, published without printer's name in 1710, 

 4to., and of which MSS. a list is given in vol. i., 

 does not seem to have led to any result. As I 

 feel equal interest with himself in every produc- 

 tion of Sterry, I am tempted again to repeat the 

 Query, in the hope of some discovery being made 

 of these valuable remains. I have no doubt the 

 editor of the "Appearance of God to Man," and 

 the other discourses printed in the first volume, 

 was R. Roach, who edited Jeremiah White's Per- 

 sriasion to Moderation, Lond., 1708, 8vo. ; and 

 afterwards published The Great Crisis, and The 

 Imperial Standard of Messiah Triumphant, 1727, 

 8vo. ; and probably Sterry's MSS. may be found 

 if Roach's papers can be traced. It is curious that 

 a similar loss of MSS. seems to have occurred 

 with regard to several of the works of Jeremiah 

 White, who, like Sterry, was a chaplain of Crom- 

 well (how well that great man knew how to select 

 them !), and, like Sterry, was of that admirable 

 Cambridge theological school which Whichcot, 

 John Smith, and Cudworth have made so re- 

 nowned. Neither of these distinguished men have 

 yet, that 1 am aware of, found their way into any 

 biographical dictionary. White is slightly noticed 

 by Calamy (vol. ii. p. 57. ; vol. iv. p. 85.)- Sterry, 

 it appears, died on Nov. 19, 1672. White sur- 

 vived him many years, and died in the seventy- 

 eighth year of his age, 1707. Of the latter, there 

 is an engraved portrait ; of the former, none that 

 I know of; nor am I aware of the burial-place of 

 either. The works which I have met with of 

 Sterry are his seven sermons preached before 

 Parliament, &c., and published in different years ; 

 his Rise, Race, and Royalty of the Kingdom of 

 God in the Soul of Man, 1683, 4to. ; his Discourse 

 of the Freedom of the Will (a title which does not 

 by any means convey the character of the book), 

 Lond., 1 675, fol. ; and the 4to. before mentioned, 

 being vol. i. of his Remains, published in 1710. 

 Of White I only knew a Funeral Sermon on Mr. 

 Francis Fuller ; his Persuasion to Moderation, 

 above noticed, whicli is an enlargement of part of 

 his preface to Sterry's Rise, 8fc. ; and his Treatise 

 on the Restoration of all Things, 1712, 8vo., which 

 has recently been republished by Dr. Thorn. To 

 his Persuasion is appended an advertisement : 



" There being a design of publishing the rest of 

 Mr. White's works, any that have either Letters or 



other Manuscripts of his by them are'desired to com- 

 municate them to Mr. John Tarrey.^distiller, at the 

 Golden Fleece, near Shadwick Dock." 



This design, with the exception of the publica- 

 tion of The Restoration, seems to have proved 

 abortive. White entertained many opinions in 

 common with Sterry, which he advocates with 

 great power. He does not however, like his fellow 

 chaplain, soar into the pure empyrean of theology 

 with unfailing pinions. Sterry has frequently 

 sentences which Milton might not have been 

 ashamed to own. His Discourse of the Freedom 

 of the Will is a noble performance, and the pre- 

 face will well bear a comparison with Cudworth's 

 famous sermon on the same subject. 



Jas. Crosslet. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC KOTES AND QUERIES. 



Colouring Collodion Portraits. — I shall be 

 obliged if any brother photographer will kindly 

 inform me, through the medium of " N. & Q.," 

 the best method of colouring collodion portraits 

 and views in a style similar to the hyalotypes 

 shown at the Great Exhibition, 



We country photographers are much indebted 

 to Dr. Diamond for the valuable information we 

 have obtained through his excellent papers in 

 " N. & Q," and perceiving he is shortly about to 

 give us the benefit of his experience in a com- 

 pact form, under the modest title oi Photographic 

 Notes, I suggest that, if one of his Notes should 

 contain the best method of colouring collodion 

 proofs, so as to render them applicable for dis- 

 solving views, &c., he will be conferring a benefit 

 on many of your subscribers ; and, as one of your 

 oldest, allow me to subscribe myself Photo, 



On some Points in the Collodion Process. — In 

 your impression of this day's date (Vol. vii., 

 p. 363.), the Rev. J. L. Sisson desires the opi- 

 nion of other photographers relative to lifting the 

 plate with the film of collodion up anddown seve- 

 ral times in the bath of nit. silv. solution ; and as 

 my experience on this point is diametrically op- 

 posed to his own, I venture to state it with the 

 view of eliciting a discussion. 



The evenness of the film is not at all dependent 

 upon this practice ; but its sensibility to light ap- 

 pears to be considerably increased. 



The plate, after being plunged in, should be 

 allowed to repose quietly from twenty to thirty 

 minutes, and then rapidly slid in and out several 

 times, until the liquid flows off in one continuou.? 

 and even sheet of liquid ; and this also has a bene- 

 ficial effect in washing off any little particles of 

 collodion, dust, oxide, or any foreign matter which, 

 if adherent, would form centres of chemical action, 

 and cause spottiness in the negative. 



