NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 188, 



which is embellished with a series of admirable views 

 by Mr. Price, from plates formerly published at a very 

 costly price, but which, in this new form, are now to 

 be procured for a few shillings. 



As the Americans have been among the most suc- 

 cessful photographic manipulators, we have looked with 

 considerable interest at a work devoted to the subject 

 which has just been imported from that country. The 

 History and Practice of the Art of Photography, §•£., by 

 Henry H. Snelling, Fourth Edition ; and though we are 

 bound to admit that it contains many hints and notes 

 which may render it a useful addition to the library of 

 the photographer, we still must pronounce it as a work 

 put together in a loose, unsatisfactory manner, and as 

 being for the most part a compilation from the best 

 writers in the Old World. 



When Dr. Pauli's Life of Alfred raa.de its appearance, 

 it received, as it deserved, our hearty commendation. 

 We have now to welcome a translation of it, which has 

 just been published in Bohn's Antiquarian Library, — 

 The Life of Alfred the Great, translated from the Ger- 

 man of Dr. Pauli ; to which is appended Alfred's Anglo- 

 Saxon Version of Orosius, with a literal English Trans- 

 lation, and an Anglo-Saxon Alphabet and Glossary by 

 Benjamin Thorpe ; and it speaks favourably for the 

 spread of the love of real learning, that it should 

 answer the publisher's purpose to put forth such a 

 valuable boolc in so cheap and popular a form. Mr. 

 Thorpe's scholarship is too well known to require re- 

 cognition at our hands. 



Books Received. — Remains of Pagan Saxondom, 

 principally from Tumuli in England, by J. Y. Akerman. 

 The present number contains coloured engravings of 

 the Umbo of Shield and IFeapons found at Driffield, and 

 of a Bronze Patera from a Cemetery at Wingham, Kent. 

 — Geroinus" Introduction to the History of the Nineteenth 

 Century. Apparently a carefully executed translation 

 of Dr. Gervinus' now celebrated brochure issued by 

 Mr. Bohn ; who has, in his Standard Library, given 

 us a new edition of De Lolme on the Constitution, with 

 notes by J. Macgregor, M. P. ; and in his Classical 

 Library a translation by C. D. Yonge of Diogenes 

 Laertius' Lives and Opinions of the Ancient Philosophers. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



wanted to purchase. 



Walker's Latin Particles. 



Herbert's Carolina Threnodia. 8vo. 1702. 



Theobald's Shakspeare Restoked. 4to. 1726. 



Scott, Remarks on the best Writings of the best Authors 



(or some such title). 

 Sermons by the Rev. Robert Wake, M.A. 1704, 1712, &c. 



History op Ancient Wilts, by Sir R. C. Hoare. The last 



three Parts. 

 Rev. a. Dyce's Edition of Dr. Richard Bentley's Works. 



Vol. III. Published by Francis Macpherson, Middle Row, 



Holborn. 1836. 

 Dissertation on Isaiah XVIII., in a Letter to Edward 



King, Esq., by Samuel Lord Bishop of Kochester (Hors. 



ley). The Quarto Edition, printed for Robson. 1779. 

 Ben Jonson's Wohks. 9 Vols. 8vo. Vols. II., III., IV. Bds. 

 Sir Walter Scott's Novels. 41 Vols. 8vo. The last nine 



Vols. Boards. 



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We are compelled to postpone until next week many interesting 

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Mr. RiLEY'i Reply to the Rev. Mr. Graves' notice of Hoveden 

 did not reach ns in time for insertion this week. 



I. A. N. (93rd Highlanders.) Several correspondents, as well as 

 yourself, complain of the difficulty of obtaining amber vnrnish. 

 I'/iere are several Eastern gums which much resemble amber, as 

 also a substance known as " Highgatc resin." Genuine amber, 

 when rubbed together, emits a very fragrant odour similar to a 

 fresh lemon, and does not abrade the surface. The fictitious amber ^ 

 on the contrary, breaks or becomes rough, and has a resinous tur- 

 pentine-like smell. Genuine amber is to be obtained generally of 

 the tobacconists, w/w have often broken mouth-pieces by them : 

 old necklaces, now out of use. are sold at a very moderate price by 

 the jewellers. The amber (f commerce, used in varnish-making, 

 contains so much impuriti/ tkat the waste of cidoroform renders iit 

 very undesirable to use. The amber should be pounded in a mor- 

 tar, and, to an ounce by measure of clilorofonn, add a draclim anA 

 a half of amber (only about one-fourth of it will be ilissolveti), and 

 this requires two days'' maceration. It should be filtered through 

 fine blotting-paper. Being so very fluid, it runs most freely over 

 the collodion, and, when well prepared and applied, renders the 

 surface so hard, and so much like the glass, that it is difficult to 

 know on which side qf the glass the positive really is. The varnisA 

 is to be obtained properly made at from 2s. to 2s. fid. per ounce f 

 and although this appears riear, it is not so in use, so very small a 

 portion being requisite to effectually cover a picture ; and the effects 

 exceed eveiy other application with which we are acquainted, — ia 

 say not/ting of its instantaneously becoming hard, in itself a most 

 desirable requisite. 



(Islington). Your note has been mislaid, hut in all pro- 

 bability the spots in your collodion would be removed by dipping 

 into the bottle a smallpiece of iodide of potassium. Collodion made 

 exactly as described by Dr. Diamond in " N. & Q.," entireltf 

 answers our expectations, and we prefer it, for our own use, to 

 any we have ever been able to procure. 



J. M. S. (Manchester) shall receive a private commtinicatiott 

 upon his Photographic troubles. IVe must, however, refer him to 

 our advertising columns for pure chemicals. Ether ought not to 

 exceed 66. 6d. tlie pint of twenty ounces. 



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