A QUERIST. _We wish our Correspondents would take the trouble of just
referring to our volumes before forwarding Queries upon well-known
subjects. We have repeatedly answered similar inquiries, and again only in
our last Number, by referring, for the history and illustration of_ "God
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," _to our_ First Volume.
H. MARTIN. _Mr. Keble's edition of Hooker is more carefully edited than
Hanbury's._
ABHBA. _The reference must certainly be to Richard Sterne, Archbishop of
York, one of the supposed authors of the_ Whole Duty of Man: _see our_
Sixth Volume, p. 537.
A. P. HAYES. _We suspect the following is the title of the work
required:--"Pedestrianism; or, an Account of the Performances of celebrated
Pedestrians during the last and present Century: with a full Narrative of
Captain Barclay's public and private Matches: and an Essay on Training. By
Walter Thom. Aberdeen, 1813. 8vo."_
NEISON ON RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. _A Correspondent wishes to know where this
pamphlet may be seen, and whether it is on sale._
W. S. _For the etymology of lampoon, see Todd's_ Johnson, _and
Richardson's_ Dictionary. _Bailey derives it from_ Lampons, _a drunken
song. It imports_ Let us drink, _from the old French_ lamper, _and was
repeated at the end of each couplet at carousals_.
W. A. W. (Brighton). _The specked appearance is entirely owing to your
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good it is invaluable, but the specks so abundant in it are a great
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solutions, they are useless; to reduce it to its metallic state again is
the only remedy. 3. The views taken_ instantaneously _are with collodion.
It may be applied equally well upon paper as glass; and the advantage of
paper negatives is very great over glass_.
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of a new process, combining all the advantages of the_ waxed-paper, _but
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