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Constable and Co. of Edinburgh, the sale being for 

 the benefit of the Glasgow Ragged School, we have 

 no doubt many of our readers will be glad to secure 

 copies, and help to forward the good work which its 

 publication is intended to promote.] 



Collodion Negatives. — Allow me to communicate a 

 sure and simple way of darkening collodion positives 

 for printing. It was shown to me by a friend of mine ; 

 and not having seen it in your " N. & Q.," I have 

 undertaken to lay it before your readers, hoping that 

 it may be found useful to many beginners. 



After having developed your picture, as a positive, 

 with protosulphate of iron and nitric acid, wash it well 

 from the developing fluid, and keep it on one end that 

 all the water may drop from the plate. Then take 

 three parts of a concentrated solution of gallic acid, 

 and one part of a nitrate of silver solution, 60 grains 

 to the ounce of water ; mix together, and pour on the 

 plate. The picture will gradually begin to blacken ; 

 and after half an hour or more, you will obtain a suffi- 

 cient density for printing a positive on paper. 



Every one who will take the trouble to try it will 

 be sure to succeed. Of all the ways to blackening a 

 picture for printing I have tried, not excepting Pro- 

 fessor Maconochie's method with chloride of gold and 

 muriate of ammonia, the surest I find is the one which 

 I have laid before you. Just try it, and you will be 

 glad with the result. F. M. (a Maltese.) 



Malta, Valetta. 



'^^ London Labour and the London Poor" (Yohyni., 

 p. 527.). — I beg to inform Mr. Gantillon that 

 the above work is discontinued. The parts en- 

 titled " Those that will work " and " Those that 

 cannot work" have been completed, and form a 

 valuable book; but the discontinuance of the 

 third part is no loss at all, for in commencing upon 

 " Those that will not work," Mr. Mayhew began 

 with a history of prostitution in ancient and 

 modern times, a subject which did not possess the 

 novelty or originality of his other divisions, and 

 consequently his readers fell off so fast that he 

 was forced first to raise the price of, and after- 

 wards to discontinue altogether, the publication. 

 Probably, if he had confined himself to treating 

 the London prostitutes as he did the coster- 

 mongers, the work would have been completed, 

 and would then have formed a complete encyclo- 

 paedia of London Labour and the London Poor. 

 Akthub C. Wllson. 



Brompton. 



Felicia Hemans's inedited Lyric (Vol. viii., 

 p. 407.). — Your correspondent Me. Weld Tay- 

 LOE seems to possess the first rude draught of the 

 following beautiful piece by Felicia Hemans, en- 

 titled, " The Elfin Call," a duet sung by Miss A. 

 Williams and Miss M. Williams, Miss Messent and 

 Miss Dolby, Mrs. A. Newton and Miss Lanza, 



Miss Cubitt and Miss Porter, Mrs. Aveling Smith 

 and Miss Sara Flower, Miss Emma Lucombe and 

 Miss Eliza Birch, Miss Turner and Miss E. Turner. 

 The music by Stephen Glover : 



" Come away. Elves ! while the dew is sweet, 

 Come to the dingles where fairies meet ; 

 Know that the lilies have spread their bells 

 O'er all the pools in our forest dells ; 

 Come away, under arching bows we'll float, 

 Making each urn a fairy boat ; 

 We'll row them with reeds o'er the fountains free, 

 And a tall flag-leaf shall our streamer be. 

 And we'll send out wild music so sweet and low, 

 It shall seem from the bright flower's heart to flow ; 

 As if 'twere a breeze with a flute's low sigh. 

 Or water-drops train'd into melody. 

 And a star from the depth of each pearly cup, 

 A golden star into heav'n looks up. 

 As if seeking its kindred where bright they lie, 

 Set in the blue of the summer sky." 



J. Yeowell. 



Sir Arthur Aston (Vol. viii., pp. 126. 302.).— 

 Though unable to inform Chaetham and A 

 B,£AD£E in what part of the co. of Berks the 

 above cavalier resided during the interval of 

 time named by the former, I think I can state the 

 connexion, by marriage only, between the Tat- 

 tersall and Aston families : I believe it will be 

 found that they were not "nearly related." 



Thomas Howard, fourth duke of Norfolk, by 

 his first wife, Mary Fitzalan, had Philip (jure 

 matris), Earl of Arundel, who died 1595 attainted, 

 and was succeeded by Thomas, created Earl of 

 Norfolk. This last was father of Henry Frederick 

 and grandfather of Charles Howard, of Greystock 

 Castle, who married Mary, eldest daughter and 

 coheiress of George Tattersall, of West Court, 

 Finchampstead, and Stapleford, co. Wilts. 



Charles Howard, as above, was the fourth 

 brother of Henry, sixth Duke of Norfolk, which 

 last was grandfather (through Thomas, his son, of 

 Worksop) of Mary Howard, who married Walter 

 Aston, fourth Baron Aston, of Forfar, in Scotland. 



H. C. C. 



I furnished a memoir of this famous soldier to 

 the Gentleman^ s Magazine in 1833 or 1834. 



G. Steinman Steinman. 



Grammar in relation to Logic (Vol. viii., p. 514.), 

 — Mr. Ingleby evidently has but a superficial 

 view of this doctrine, which is not only Dr. 

 Latham's, but one, I apprehend, pretty well known 

 to every Oxford undergraduate, viz. that, logi- 

 cally, conjunctions connect propositions, not words. 

 By way of proving the falsity of it (which he says 

 is demonstrable), he bids Dr. Latham " resolve 

 this sentence : All men are either tivo-legged, one- 

 legged, or no-legged : " and adds, " It cannot be 

 done." I may inform him that the three categorical 

 propositions, " A man is two-legged, or he is one- 



