June 4. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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</). (p. 506.) may find a solution of his difficulties 

 regarding the production of stereoscopic pictures, 

 in the following considerations. The object of 

 having two pictures is to present to each eye an 

 image of what it sees in nature ; but as the angle 

 subtended by a line, of which the pupils of the 

 eyes form the extremities, must difler for every 

 distance, and for objects of varying sizes, it follows 

 there is no absolute rule that can be laid down as 

 the only correct one. For distant views there is 

 in nature scarcely any stereoscopic effect ; and in a 

 photographic stereoscopic view the effect produced 

 is not really a representation to the eye of the 

 vieiv itself^ but of a model of such vieiv ; and the 

 apparent size of the model will vary with the 

 angle of incidence of the two pictures, being 

 smaller and nearer as the angle increases. I be- 

 lieve Professor Wheatstone recommends for land- 

 scapes 1 in 25, or about half an inch to every foot. 



Geo. Shadboi.t. 



Cement for Glass Baths. — In reply to numer- 

 ous inquiries which have appeared in "N. & Q." 

 relative to a good cement for making glass baths 

 for photographic purposes, I send a recipe which I 

 copied a year or two ago from some newspaper, 

 and which seems likely to answer the purpose : I 

 have not tried it myself, not being a photographer. 



Caoutchouc 15 grains, chloroform 2 ounces, 

 mastic ^ an ounce. The two first-named in- 

 gredients are to be mixed first, and after the gum 

 is dissolved, the mastic is to be added, and the 

 whole allowed to macerate for a week. When 

 great elasticity is desirable, more caoutchouc may 

 be added. This cement is perfectly transparent, 

 and is to be applied with a brush cold. H. C K. 



Rectory, Hereford. 



Mr. Lyte's Mode of Printing. — All persons 

 who have experienced disappointment in the 

 printing of their positive pictures will feel obliged 

 by Mr. Lyte's suggestion as to the bath ; but as 

 the preparation of the positive paper has also a 

 great deal to say to the ultimate result, Mr. Lyte 

 would confer an additional obligation if he gave 

 the treatment he adopts for this. 



I have observed that the negative collodion 

 picture exercises a good deal of influence on the 

 ultimate colour of the positive, and that different 

 collodion negatives will give different results in 

 this respect, when the paper and treatment with 

 each has been precisely the same. Does this cor- 

 respond with other persons' experience ? C. E. F. 



^t^Mti to i^tnor ^uttiti. 



JEulenspiegel or Ulenspiegel (Vol. vii., pp. 357. 

 416. 507.). — Mr. Thoms's suggestion, and his 

 quotation in proof thereof from the Chronicler, 

 are farther verified by the following inscription 



and verses which I transcribe from an engraved 

 portrait of the famous jester : 



" Ulenspiegel. 

 " Ligt Begraben zu Dom in Flandern in der grosen 

 Kirch, auf dem Grabister also Likend abgebildet. Starb 

 A°. 1301." 



These lines are above the portrait, and beneath 

 it are the verses next following : 



" Tchau Ulenspiegeln bier. Das Bildniss macht dlch 

 lachen : 

 Was wurdst du thun siehst du jhn selber Possen 

 machen ? 

 Zwar Thyle ist ein Bild und Spiegel dieser Welt, 

 Viel Bruder er verliess; Wir treiben Narretheyen, 

 In dem uns dunckt, dass wir die grosten Wejsen seyen. 

 Drum lache deiner selbst ; diss Blat dich dir 

 vorstellt." 



The portrait, evidently that of a man of large 

 intellect, is very life-like, and full of animation. 

 He seems to be some fifty years of age or so ; he 

 has a cap, ornamented by a large feather, on his 

 head. He is seated in a chair, has a book in his 

 hand, and is attired in a kind of magisterial robe 

 bordered with fur. There is a good-humoured 

 roguish twinkle in his eyes ; and I should be in- 

 clined to call him, judging from the portrait before 

 me, an epigrammatist rather than a mere vulgar 

 jester. The engraving is beautifully executed : it 

 has neither date nor place of publication, but its 

 age may perhaps be determined by the names of 

 the painter (Paulus Furst) and engraver (P. Tro- 

 schel). The orthography is by no means of recent 

 date. I cannot translate the verses to my own 

 satisfaction ; and should feel much obliged if you, 

 Mr. Editor, or Mr. Thoms, would favour the 

 readers of "N. & Q." with an English version 

 thereof. Henry Campkin. 



Reform Club. 



Lawyers' Bags (Vol, vii., pp.85. 144.). — Colonel 

 Landman is doubtless correct in his statement as 

 to the colour of barristers' bags ; but from the 

 evidence of A Templar and Causidicus, we must 

 place the change from green to red at some period 

 anterior to the trial of Queen Caroline. In Queen 

 Anne's time they were green. 



" I am told. Cousin Diego, you are one of those that 

 have undertaken to manage me, and that you have said 

 you will carry a green hag yourself, rather thdn we 

 shall make an end of our lawsuit : I'll teach them and 

 you too to manage." — The History of John Bull, by 

 Dr. Arbuthnot, Part I. ch. xv. 



T. H. Kebslky, B.A. 



Audlem, Cheshire. 



" Nine Tailors make a Man " (Vol. vi., pp. 390. 

 563. ; Vol. vii., p. 165.). — The origin of this say- 

 ing is to be sought for elsewhere than in England 

 only. Le Conte de la Villemarque, in. his interest- 



