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Notices to Correspondents.

OUR EIGHTH VOLUME. _We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the
commencement of a new Volume, to state that our attention has been called
to the sharp and somewhat personal tone of several of the recent
contributions to "N. & Q.," and which, we are reminded, is the more
striking from the marked absence of anything of that character in our
earlier Volumes. We are perhaps ourselves somewhat to blame for this, from
our strong indisposition to exercise our editorial privilege of omission.
Our notice of the subject will, we are sure, be sufficient to satisfy our
contributors of the inconvenience which must result to themselves as well
as to us from the indulgence in too great license of the pen. We know that
when men write_ currente calamo, _words and phrases are apt to escape, the
full application of which is not observed, until, as Charles Lamb said,
"print proves it;" but being conscious that, when treating on the subjects
with which we deal, no one would willingly write anything with design to
give offence, we shall in future "play the tyrant" on all such occasions
with more vigilance than we have done._

L. K. _The lines_--

"Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather and prunello."

_are from Pope's_ Essay on Man, _Ep. IV._ 203. _See some curious
illustrations of them in our_ First Volume, pp. 246. 362. &c.

BLACKAMOOR _will find the_ Cyanogen Soap, _manufactured by Thomas,
excellent for removing Photographic stains. It is, however, to be used with
care, being_ poisonous.

ALBERT. _The history of the phrase_--

"Quem Deus vult perdere,"

_will be seen in our_ First Volume, pp. 347. 351. 421. 476.; _and_ Second
Volume, p. 317.

I. G. T. _Gooseberry_ Fool _is the same as pressed or crushed gooseberries,
from the French_ fouler, _to press, tread, &c._

SIR F. MADDEN's paper, Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's
Letters? _is unavoidably postponed until next week._

_Replies to our numerous_ PHOTOGRAPHIC QUERISTS _in our next._

_The_ Index _to our_ SEVENTH VOLUME _will be ready on Saturday the 16th._

_A few complete sets of_ "NOTES AND QUERIES," Vols. i. _to_ vi., _price
Three Guineas, may now be had; for which early application is de