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KIDD'S LONDON JOURNAL. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



"W*. B.— Fie ! Use your own good sense in the matter. 

 How is it possible that "the Fly" could be produced 

 in the manner you imagine 1 Nature knows no such 

 means of reproduction. 



"A Reader." — "We will tell you all about your Parrot 

 next week. 



\V. L. J., and the Inct'batok. — A Letter awaits you, at 

 the Post Office, Collington. 



R. E.— Our space is so circumscribed, that "Fugitive 

 Poetry" can only be admissible under very peculiar 

 circumstances. We are already overwhelmed with 

 similar "kind offerings." This "reply" will suffice 

 for all the writers. Their favors have merit, and 

 would be readily available in a Monthly Magazine. 



New Subscribers, and Casual Readers, are referred to 

 the Leading Article in our First Number for the 

 detailed objects of the London Journal : to these 

 Ave shall rigidly adhere. 



Private Letters. — Of these Ave daily recei\ r e such 

 immense quantities, that we must ' really beg the 

 Avriters to excuse our not replying to them. Our time 

 is more profitably occupied. All A'acancies, as they are 

 called, are filled up. Let this general answer suffice. 



Correspondents sending in any " facts" connected with 

 Science or Natural History, are requested in every 

 case to append their names and. places of abode. In no 

 instance, however, will their names be published with- 

 out their express sanction. 



Notice to Subscribers and Others. — It haA'ing been 

 deemed expedient, to meet the views of Vie Trade, that 

 this Journal should always be published by anticipa- 

 tion, Contributors and others Avill be so kind as to 

 bear in mind that they must give us an extra " week's 

 grace," and wait patiently till their favors appear. 



All persons Avho may send in MSS., but which may not 

 be " accepted," are requested to preserve copies of 

 them, as the Editor cannot hold himself responsible 

 for their return. 



To obtain this Paper without any difficulty, our readers 

 need only order it to be sent to them by any of their 

 local Booksellers or , NeAVSvendors. It is published 

 simultaneously with all the other weekly periodicals. 



KIDD'S LONDOH JOURNAL. 

 Saturday, February 21, 1852. 



We this bay publish our Eighth Num- 

 ber ; and with it, our Second Part. 

 This affords us the opportunity we covet, 

 of addressing ourselves, once a-month, to 

 our distant friends, with whom we can chat 

 in this particular channel only " thirteen 

 times a-year." 



We do not ask them to tell us how they 

 like our company? We have it under their 

 sign manual, that they are not only admiring 

 readers, but staunch friends of ours ; willing 

 and waiting to do anything and everything 

 that can aid us in our enterprise. It is our 

 invariable object, as much as in us lies, to 

 make each one of our readers a " friend." 

 We then sit down and write comfortably ; 

 our very pen knowing, from the facility with 

 which it traverses the paper, how happy 

 and cheerful is the hand that holds it. Never, 

 surely, had any public journalist more 

 reason than we have, for feeling proud at the 

 position in which we are placed. 



As we have invariably found it to be the 

 best way, when requiring a favor to be 

 granted, to ask it boldly and unreservedly, 

 — we at once tell our friends how they can 



help us in a matter of some consequence to 

 us, as well as of much interest to the 

 public. 



The demand for our Journal is large, 

 and very rapidly increasing — not in one 

 place only, but everywhere. Yet can it not 

 be obtained ivlien wanted ! Some may smile 

 incredulously at this ; and, were we not the 

 Proprietor of this paper, perhaps we might 

 smile also. But we are the Proprietor, 

 consequently we cannot " afford," in the 

 present instance, to join in the laugh. 



In all towns, villages, and places where 

 periodicals are sold, the booksellers and 

 dealers will not, it appears, order one more 

 copy of our paper than is bond fide disposed 

 of before it arrives! Thus, if Mr. Wishful, 

 Mr. Merriside, Mr. Nuthatch, Mrs. Green- 

 finch, and Miss Skylark, each order one, 

 there are five copies only written for to 

 London. But, should any of the friends and 

 acquaintance of the above feel pleased with 

 the paper (as daily they do), and set out 

 into the town to procure it — their labor 

 would be vain, their disappointment great, 

 our loss (collectively) very considerable. 

 We state a case that occurs many times in 

 every twenty-four hours, and from one end 

 of England to the other. The same in Dub- 

 lin ; the same in Edinburgh ; and so on, ad 

 infinitum. 



Now, herein can our friends aid us 

 bravely. Let us imagine that each town of 

 any note contains only owe respectable book- 

 seller. Assuming that he can " read," and, 

 by a still greater stretch of imagination, 

 that he can " reason," — surely, if any one of 

 our kind friends were to call upon him, and 

 explain the nature of our paper to him, 

 showing how peculiarly adapted it is for ge- 

 neral introduction amongst families (wherein 

 Natural History is in most instances a 

 " study") — surely, we say, this might induce 

 him to speculate on one single Part of our 

 Journal? The two Parts would not cost 

 him, carriage included, one shilling; and 

 how " heavy" such a risk ! 



Once more. Every bookseller has a con- 

 nection ; and in country towns and villages 

 a degree of familiarity naturally exists be- 

 tween the bookseller and his customers, 

 which would warrant a little explanation, 

 and recommendations of the kind we hint 

 at. With what happy results would these be 

 attended ! Let only the " disposition" to 

 serve us be shown, and the " issue" is known 

 beforehand. Here, at all events, "where 

 there is a will there is a way." 



We only wish we were so placed, and 

 had a friend to serve! But, alas! all people's 

 heads are not " screwed on the same way;" 

 and for Philanthropy, we must search alone 

 in Johnson's Dictionary. We are shocked, 

 positively shocked, to be obliged to record 

 such a thing in the nineteenth century. 



