380 



KNOAA/'LEDGE 



[Nov. 3, 1882. 



ICUXEUMOX WASP 



kcd up iieally 



i!.o sun, l>U wluilo si'lf 



'. I luilf guess is t)ic 



with liis jiroilipiously 



1. Will somo one toll 



.10 |ilaoo until, with a dart, 



onni eoino yards away, how 



iirvi'llous wiii^rs nmko, and 



cnorniouslv rapid nnisrulnr 



(i. U. WVXNK. 



MONKEY AND MII!I!«1R. 



I'.'s" monkey is not singular in its proceodin<;s 



i-s. Many years afro, when voynginj; lionio from 



. little monkey at Anjer (Straits of 8nnda), and 



...... .. iookinc-jilass caused us much aniiiscmcut. lie 



ui uli can-fully put his paw behind the glass, and then, 



thing there, would look cautiou.«ly "round the corner." 



I V.ok like a measure of intollii!i"''e, ns "Deo Fido" 



^n.inkey must have had a very bad memory, for 



: I the previous deception, but always, with an 



■ II, went tlirough the same antics on seeing his 



^ iM. A. M. U. 



-. 1. .w..V('r, this extra caution was the rcsoU of abstract 



Uo may havo thought that what bad been proved in 



might not be true for all. — Ed.] 



an^e« to Corifsponlifnts. 



mmmmie^tiamt /or lit Ediler rtqmirinf tarlf allemlun tkotili rtae% llkl 

 &#/0p# tkr SitturJ^g prectdimg tk» eurrrHt Umt <{/" KirowLBDOl, tki 

 -,,/.,i.-, <,<■»», rk eampiU ■< lo go lo preu earh in Iht retlc. 

 1 i«ki.io!CDl!tT». — 1. Xo quriliomt Ultima far tcienlijic i'/ormalion 

 '. tkt pott. 2 Litters trmi to Ikt Editor for eorrtMpondenti 

 ■ -J* t\e namit or oddreMMei of eorrttpondenti be giren in 

 k/« onli/ of Ihl 

 •hoHid kurt a title, and 



nid be t 



■&«r, the page on which it 



RE-irBGAM. I should say yon could not do better than to use 

 To<lhunu?r's smaller algebra. It is not possible to say whether you 

 could go through quadratic c-|ualions, or the four first books of 

 Euclid, without a master ; persons differ so in their ways of learn- 

 ing.^ The m.'ifl..ni.it;. . I linvo Icnnit from masters and lecturers 

 '" '' '» ■•'■' I-atin, if yon want it for use, try the 



" ■ .r rfjwiing ii few books by that method, 



I" -r. You will hnd the grammar quite 



'■ ' .niething of the language. Von can 



'■ ! itlu bo-)kii in that way in a few week.<, 



. want Latin for show, you should have 

 . how to pronounce it in several now 

 ■" 'h' unlike its nearest neighbour; you 



sl.a'l :.irii th.. fi!. - It, I.ntiti Ijofore you can read a lino of any 

 look ; after five or sii yearn you will have a quantity of knowledge 

 ynry n.condite and very useless to you j but then yon will forget 

 it nil n, :,i, iif il„. ,ame time.— Hv. DnocKBAXic. Tliere is no 

 ^'' •iveen the colour of stuffs and their conducting 



I' < are warmer than light for one reason only, 



"' "■■'• ■■Ml the other statements quoted froiii 



" " ' -'. but not (ns you seem to think esHCn- 

 '" of the truth. It is wrong to say that 



' ■ I . tter than light ones, for there is no 



'" '•"' f'.!I..v i;,.it light clothes conduct 



».. 



i When persons uti- 

 . confound togi'lher 

 .'inveclir/n, and ab- 

 irned that you are 

 ih thundery accom- 

 ..luccd the electrical 

 there is no connee* 



'■nses recognise, not 



.Mr. Muybridg.-, M. 



for scientific not 



'iin Knglish Krjcioty 



l.as yet been made. 



Kiiropo and America 



■• -■ ■ " ■• oavo not heard that 



•l-ecunUj from |>sins of tho kind, but 



they may do so for aught wo know to the contmry.— Only A 

 WoM.\N, J. HA/.Kt.i.K.v.\, J. W. B., K. M. N., Sami,. Y., T. V. 

 IHvEBX.vv, Wii. I. Newton, A Father, G. Y., D. 0., II^rvev, and 

 many others. We are glad to lind so large a ])ortion of our readers 

 agroo with us about the portraits in question, though, indeed, wo do 

 not suppose anyone who holds the women of his family in just 

 rt>gi\rd coidd well do otherwise. As two of you write, it is not a 

 question of tho jiropriety or impropriety of certain pictures. It 

 would be prudery, indeed, to object on such groun<ls. 'I'hero are 

 several pictures in the National (inllery towhich "nico" persons (that 

 is, (lersons with nasty ideas) might object with far more reason. 

 Hut no sensible person cares about those. Nor does tlio objection 

 to these pictures reside in tho ovidenco they afford' of immorality 

 among jirinces. There is immorality everywhere; and it is a 

 matter of no more moment that King This, or i'rinco That, or (irand- 

 duko So-aml-so neglects bis wife, and linda himself more at homo 

 with persons of lax morality, than it is that tho same should bo tho 

 case with iirown, or Jones, or Noakes, or Styles. What every 

 man of honour who thinks on tho subjcDt must feel, is tho 

 insult conveyed, in tho selection of pictures such as these, aa 

 if they represented )>ersons in whom tho nation, n« a nation, 

 ought to feel interest.— T. Jardink Perkins. How do tho above 

 remarks suit you by way of explanation Y Of course, you arc right 

 in saying that tho gallery is not a Female Ezcollonoo (iallcry, but a 

 National Portrait (.Jallery. That is the trouble. You aro "loth to 

 believe that I do not consider these women's portraits national." 

 Do you ? They are just as national to my mind as would bo 

 portraits of any other persons of more or less lax principlea, 

 ac(|uaintanco with whom had happened to suit any of our kings, 

 as, for instance, portraits of the follows employed by Hubert to 

 tiirtnro I'rinco Arthur, or the persons selected by llichnrd III. for 

 Ms villanies. I take it a National Portrait Gallery should contain 

 liictures of nil statesmen, whether their intluenco was good or bad; 

 of soldiers and sailors of renown; of poets, historians, and all 

 men great in literature, ort, or acienco ; of kings, princes, and 

 others of high piiailion througli their birth or family, with special 

 ))laee for those among Ihoni whose influence was used for tho benefit 

 of the nation ; nor should the circnmstance that any one, otherwise 

 great, had been guilty of offoncos, even of deep dyo, cuuso their 

 portraits to be regarded us objectionable in a National Portrait 

 Gallery. All women who have hnd high position in tho nation, 

 and all who have been famed in .irt, or science, or literature, 

 should, of course, bo there. And certainly, also, tho mothers, 

 wives, sisters, and daughters of famous men should in many cases 

 have a place, especially where they had had much influence on tho 

 career of such men. But what earthly interest there can bo to 

 any sound mind in tho domestic irregularities of princes, or why 

 one particular class of irregularities shoiihl bo selected as 

 worthy of national celebrity, I think you would (ind it very 

 diflicult to show. Uow would it bo if th(! queen and each 

 woman in the land who ran tho least risk from her position of 

 having her portrait put along with these "beauties," were to leave 

 express injunction in her will that she should not be oxposcil to 

 such indignity.* As for your threat, — hero is a little parable for 

 you: — "Passing down Newspaper-row, in Now Y'ork city, ono 

 morning, tho late Horace Greeley met ono of his readers, who very 

 excitedly exclaimed, ' Sir. Greeley, after the article you published this 

 morning, I intend to stop your paper ! ' 'Oh, no,' said Mr. Greoloy, 

 'don't do that!' ' Yes, my mind is made uji; I shall stop tho 

 paper.' Lato in the oflernoon the two mot again, when Greeley 

 remarked, ' Mr. Thompson, I am very glad you did not carry out 

 your threat this morning." ' What do you mean ?' 'Why, youaaid 

 you were going to stop my paper.' ' And so 1 did ; I went to tho 

 ollice and had it stopped.' ' You are surely mistaken. I have just 

 come from there, and tho press was booming.' ' Sir,' said Tliomp- 

 Hon, very pompously, ' I mean I intended to stop my subscription 

 to your paper.' 'Oh, thunder!' ejaculated Greeley. 'I thought 

 you were going to stoj) tho running of the pai)er, and knock me out 

 of a living. My friend, let me toll you something; one man is just a 

 drop of water in the ocean. You didn't set tho machinery of this 

 worlfl in motion, and you can'tstoj) it ; and when yon are underneath 

 the ground, things upon tho groimd will wag <m the same as over.' " 

 -J. T. D. You are ono of a very small minority. If the pictures 

 were put there to show how de|)raveil the nation has been ut times 

 (ihongh I expect there has not iKJon any great change in tho nation 

 as n whole, so that you should rather have written "court," than 

 "nation"), there would be no serious objection. But that is very 

 far from Ixiing the case. I wish, by the way, that every reader of 

 KNOWLKnoE had had tlio opportunities I have had of learning how 

 Foreign, American, and Colonial visitors of the higher tyjies of cha- 

 rnct<?r view these (licturcs. 1'hat they regard them as IiihuUs to tho 

 Iieople need hardly lie said. — W. I). Bikd. That allusion would be 

 " rude," no doubt, if not juslificd by tho utter rudeness of wliiit it 

 referred to. As regards Kew Gardens, how do you get away from 



