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hunt is extremely exhilarating, as you 

 shall see. 



Wishing well to Our Journal — although 

 you have shown me up — I am, clear Mr. 

 Editor, your faithful friend 



Tottenham, Oct. 18. FiNO. 



NOTICE. 



All the numbers of this Journal are in print ; and 

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 Parts 1 to 10, price Is. Id. each ; post-free, Is. 4d. 



As due notice was given to our Subscribers, early in 

 June last, to complete their Sets without delay, it is 

 hoped they have done so, as the Stock is now made up 

 into Sets, and very few "odd" numbers are on hand. 

 The price of the first two Quarterly, and the first Half- 

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28th. 



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Phrenology for the Million will be continued in our 

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Communications Received. — Bombyx Atlas.— J. M. S. J. 

 Many thanks.— L. O.— Forestiera.— F. M. Golding. 

 A very kind proposal. Thanks.— C. M. In our next.— 

 A Constant Reader. Give your husky canary some 

 boiled milk (fresh daily) instead of water. Continue 

 this for two or three days ; and keep him out of all 

 draughts. Read our "Treatises on the Canary," in 

 Vol. I. This matter is there discussed at much length. 



To Correspondents. — As we always print one number 

 of the Journal in advance, such of our Correspondents 

 as may not receive replies to their questions in the cur- 

 rent number, must bear in mind that they are not for- 

 gotten. We pay marked attention to all favors. 



KIDD'S OWN JOURNAL, 

 Saturday, October 30, 1852. 



The Contents of our letter-box are 

 again beginning to surprise us ; and in some 

 degree, to perplex us. 



It would seem that the enlarged sphere of 

 our usefulness is becoming appreciated in 

 the highest quarters ; and that the tone of 

 our articles on the usages of society, is recog- 

 nised and approved by individuals on whom 

 we never could have hoped to make any im- 

 pression. 



The manner in which certain parties ad- 

 dress us, is as creditable to their own feelings 

 as it is delightful to us. They suggest that the 

 size of our paper, as to quantity, should be 

 increased at least one halt* ; and that the sub- 

 jects on which we love to treat, should have 

 more space allotted them. These, and 

 several other really valuable suggestions, 

 have been made to us ; and we listen to them 

 with all due deference. 



As regards the public benefits derivable 

 from a Paper like ours, we have never had 

 two opinions on the subject. We have in 

 our desk letters out of number, which amply 

 and most satisfactorily prove to us that we 

 have been useful, and in no small degree. 

 The writers, in the fulness of their confidence, 

 have indeed nerved us up to persevere, with 

 all our energies, to become increasingly use- 



ful. We have " the will" to do wonders ; it 

 is " the power" alone that is wanting. 



The year is fast running out, and Christ- 

 mas will soon be upon us. We shall then 

 have been fifty-two weeks buffeting the waves 

 of a most cruel opposition. Till that time, 

 we shall unflinchingly " hold out." No one 

 can then say we have been fickle, unfaithful, 

 or unmindful of any promise given. 



If one or more of the parties who express 

 themselves so interested in our progress, can 

 offer proposals to us, or show us how our head 

 and our pen can be made subservient to 

 their views, the " sinews of war" being also 

 forthcoming — most gladly will we enter into 

 any arrangement that may tend to our own 

 and the public good. No difficulties in such 

 a matter ought, we imagine, to present them- 

 selves ; but, as we have already frankly said, 

 — our own powers are limited. 



The first practical lesson we were taught 

 at school, still lives in our memory — " Never 

 venture out of your depth, unless you can 

 swim." We have seen many — far too many, 

 offend against this rule — and we have wit- 

 nessed their death. They have been 

 drowned before our very eyes, and have 

 drowned many others with them. 



We shall most assuredly take a warning 

 from their fate ! 



Some hundreds of letters having 

 passed through our hands, penned by " Cor- 

 respondents " in communication with Our 

 Journal — we have on several extraordinary 

 occasions ventured to comment on the 

 characters of the writers, and to express our- 

 selves delighted with the " originals," whose 

 thoughts, when committed to paper, did 

 them so much honor. 



When making these comments, en passant, 

 we had little idea that we should ever be 

 called upon to give our " reasons " for the 

 inferences we have deduced. Much less 

 did we expect, that we should be asked to 

 say " how " this insight of character can be 

 gained from the perusal of a letter ! 



However, seeing that the request has been 

 urgently made, by some half-dozen indivi- 

 duals whom we hold in great reverence, why 

 should we be backward in trying to please 

 them? They are well aware that we cannot 

 now recal our words — nor would we, if even 

 it were possible. We have already spoken 

 of them as being. " amiable ;" and every 

 letter they send us, only tends to make us 

 more confident in our own powers of divina- 

 tion and long-sight. 



Let not our readers class us among the 

 "advertising" charlatans who profess to 

 tell character by handwriting, on the receipt 

 of money or stamps ; or on the receipt of a 

 lock of hair, &c, &c. These wandering 

 starvelings live on the credulity of John 



