Chapter 6

Our photographic friends will be glad to hear that a new edition of Professor Hunt's _Manual of Photography_ has just been issued, in which the author, besides including all the most recent improvements, the process of photographic etching, &c., has taken the opportunity of making such alterations in the arrangements of the several divisions of the subject, as have enabled him to place the various phenomena in a clearer view.

While on the subject of scientific publications, we notice the very able volume just issued by Professor Beale, _The Microscope, and its Application to Clinical Medicine_. Though addressed more particularly to medical practitioners, it contains so much valuable instruction with respect to the management of the microscope generally, as to render it a valuable guide to all who are engaged in microscopic investigations.

Dr. Latham will lecture on Thursday next at the Beaumont Institution, Mile End Road, _On the various Families of Mankind in the Russian and Turkish Empires_. The Lecture is for the benefit of the Colet Schools of the very poor district of St. Thomas, Stepney.

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SERMON AT THE FUNERAL OF MR. JOHN SMITH. 1652.

DIVINE ARITHMETIC, Sermon at the Funeral of Mr. Samuel Jacomb, June 17, 1659.

ANGLIÆ SPECULUM, Sermon at the Fast, April 24, 1678.

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EXPOSITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 1665.

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THE ARTIFICES AND IMPOSITIONS OF FALSE TEACHERS, discovered in a Visitation Sermon. 8vo. London, 1712.

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ABHBA. _For explanation of the monogram of the Parker Society, see_ Vol. vii., p. 502.

I. R. R. Embost, _with hunters, refers to a deer that has been so hard chased that she foams at the mouth_.--Stound, _in Spenser, is explained in the glossary, as space, moment, season, hour, time_.--Yarke _is to make ready, or prepare_.--Crampette, _in Heraldry, is the chape at the bottom of the scabbard of a sword, to prevent the point from protruding. It is a badge borne by the Earl de la Warr._--_An_ Ambry, _in old customs, was a place where arms, plate, and vessels of domestic use were kept; probably a corruption of Almonry_.--Gispen _is a pot or cup made of leather_, "_gyspen potte_, pot de _cuir_." _Palsgrave. In use at Winchester School, according to Kennett._--_The item in the Newcastle Accounts, "Paid for cowllinge of Bartye Allyson, the fool," may mean, for habiting him in a friar's cowl._--Clito, _or_ Clitones, _says Du Cange, "nom modo Regum primogenitos, quod vult Spelmanus, sed universim filios omnes, appellarunt Anglo-Saxones, tanquam_ [Greek: Kleitous], _id est_, inclytos, claros."--Sollerets _are pieces of steel, which formed part of the armour for the feet_.

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Corrections made to printed original.

page 443, "the last day of November, 1674.": '1574' in original.

page 450, "(afterwards Sir Francis)": 'aftewards' in original. "p. 291.": 'p. 29.' in original (reference checked).