Pan. 27. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



71 



In The Two Noble Kinsmen (Act V. Sc. 1.) we 

 also find : 



" Oh vouchsafe, 

 With that thy rare green eye," &c. 



Steevens notes these two instances on the passage 

 in Romeo and Juliet already quoted by Mr. Temple, 

 adding — "Arthur Hall (the most ignoi-ant and 

 absurd of all the translators of Homer), in the 

 fourth Iliad (4to., 1581), calls Minerva 



" ' The green eide goddese.' " 

 I remember receiving, when at school, as an " im- 

 position," for persistently translating y\avKib-nii; 

 " green," or rather " sea-green eyed," as many 

 hundred lines of the yEneid as there were letters 

 in the offending epithet. A couplet, which pro- 

 bably prompted the offence, still clings to my 

 memory in connexion with this incident of my 

 " salad " days ; it comes, perhaps, from an imita- 

 tion of some old French or Spanish ballad, and 

 refers of course to the eyes of some fair damsel : 



" Now they were green as a morning sea, 

 And now they were black as black can be." 



Late years have added strength to the viridity of 

 this opinion, and, to use the words of Ursinus, 

 "quid oculis Smaragdinis l^tius ? visuve jucun- 

 dius ? " Indeed, I can only think of the goddess, 

 " too wise to look through optics black or blue," 

 as possessed of eyes tinged with the emerald. 

 Will any correspondent say why we should not so 

 interpret Homer's epithet ? A. Challsteth. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Dr. ManseWs Process (Vol. xi., pp. 33, 84.). — It is 

 with very considerable pleasure that I notice the commu- 

 nication from Du. M.vnsell, detailing an improved me- 

 thod of developing the preserved coUodioniscd plates. It 

 is evidently so perfect and so simple of application, that 

 there can be but one opinion about the matter. I need 

 scarcely add that I shall certainly adopt it, and beg to 

 offer my best thanks for so happy a suggestion. With a 

 manipulator so sagacious as Dk. Majjsell, there is no 

 photographic process that is good iu principle that could 

 ultimately fail in his hands. Geo. Shadbolt. 



3Ir. Thompson's Copies of the Raphael Drawings. — By 

 what process did Mr. Thurston Thompson procure his 

 negatives of the Raphael Drawings, so justly praised by 

 you in your notice of the Photographic Exliibition ? Will 

 that gentleman be kind enough to say whether it was by 

 simple superposition? or were they taken hy the camera'? 



K. D. 



Talbot V. Laroche. — We are glad to hear that the 

 qucestio vexata which has so long agitated the photogra- 

 phic world, is at length at rest. We understand that on 

 the one hand no attempt is to be made to set aside the 

 verdict, nor on the other to raise the points of law which 

 ■were mooted at the trial; and finally that Mr. Talbot, 

 notwithstanding he has been a great loser by the ex- 

 penses incurred in the experiments, &c., undertaken by 

 him before taking out his patent, does not intend to per- 

 severe in his application for its renewal. 



" HiUotype. — We have received the following from 

 Mr. Hill, in relation to the natural colours. We are 

 unable to give any farther information upon this subject 

 than that which the notice contains. We may sav, how- 

 ever, that one cause of Mr. Hill's delay is owing" to the 

 lingering illness of his wife, who is at the present moment 

 lying very low with consumption. He says, ' Her case 

 has required and received most of my attention for a 

 year past, or, without any doubt, I would have been out 

 with the colours.' 



" ' The Natural Colours. — Daguerreotypists, and others, 

 who wish to be informed as to my present plan for im- 

 parting a knowledge of my Heliochromic Process, will 

 please furnish me, postage paid (no other will be received), 

 Avith their Names, Post Office, County, and State. Those 

 who do so will be addressed with full particulars. My 

 delay for the past year, and other matters, will be satis- 

 factorily explained. Address, 



L. L. Hill, 



Westkill, 



Greene Co., N". Y. 



" ' Westkill, Dec. 11, 1854.' " 



From Humphrey's Journal of the Daguerreotype, Sfc. 



3RejjIicS ta ^tnar €i\itviei. 



Sir Becil Grenville (Vol x., p. 417. ). — T. E. D. 

 sent a letter of Sir Bevil Grenville's for insertion. 

 Will you be so good as to give place to these lines 

 of inquiry, to ask whether T. E. D. is aware of 

 any other letters of Sir Bevil Grenville hitherto 

 unpublished ? or of any MS. annals of that illus- 

 trious family, as an antiquary is desirous to trace 

 the early history and connexion between the 

 Grenville branch at Stowe in Cornwall, and 

 George Lord Lansdowne the poet. Did the 

 latter ever live at Stowe? and when did the 

 Cornwall property pass into other hands ? Again, 

 in what degree of consanguinity did Sir Richard 

 Grenville, Lord of Neath Abbey in Glamorgan, 

 South Wales, stand to the renowned Sir Bevil 

 and Lord Lansdowne ? and what caused the 

 breaking up of the Grenville branch in South 

 Wales ? G. G. 



Anecdote of Canning (Vol. xi,, p. 12.). — If 

 E. P. S. will turn to the second series of A Resi- 

 dence at the Court of London, by Richard Rush, 

 the American ambassador, he will, I believe, find 

 the anecdote he is in search of. I cite this from 

 memory. The game is not of twenty-one, but that 

 of "Twenty questions;" and on this occasion, if I 

 remember rightly, eighteen or nineteen had been 

 asked when Canning guessed " The Wand of the 

 Lord High Steward." The success of the ques- 

 tion depends upon his power of logical division, 

 and with this aid it rarely requires even twenty 

 questions to arrive at the object thought of. 



D. W. 



Biblical Question (Vol. x., p. 495.). — You no- 

 tice a Bible (Cambridge, 1663), sold for fifteen 

 guineas at Sotheby and Wilkinson's, having 



