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 386 NOTES AND QUERIES. P* s. VL NOV. 17, only— and this is all-important— the instant the metal and the wax meet press them together as evenly and as firmly as possible. The wax requires to be used so hot that delicate fingers appeal for the protection of thick gloves. It is better to use an old pair lest some of the wax sticks to and spoils them. Do not leave the wax on the metal too long ; to leave it on more than a few seconds heats the plate without improving the impression. I once knew a really clever person who actually dropped the wax on the metal, and was quite surprised to find that it stuck. C. C. W. EPITAPH AT GLENEAGLES.— The following inscription on a gravestone in the burial- ground attached to the little domestic chapel at the Place of Gleneagles, in btrathearn, a seat of the Earl of Camperdowu, is very beautiful and touching : — S. .il. Betheu Dundas, Goorgii Haldanu do Uleneagles UxorU, Obiit 12"" Mali, 1770. .ditat. 23. Eheu ! Quam uimis cito abstulit mors, Hie, saltern, Marmorem, non mendacem, Sacrare liuet ; Hie novos spargere ttores, ueque inani Fungi niunere ; dum remimsci juvat Quam dulcis, qualiaque fuit. O verecunda, digna, amabilis, Quanta te suavitate blandissima morum, Decoravere pietas, benevoleutia, tides, Mansuetiaairno qu» in tuo pectore, Semper habitare gaudebaut. Immature cecidit, sed manet memoria cara ; Ac virtutuni exemplo, Quod, dum vixit, maxiuie optavit, Aliia adhuc prodest. • Conjugi Mcereus poauit Maritus. Attohterarder. A. O. REID. ENGLISH ALMANACS OF THE SBVENTKKNTH CENTUEY. — During 1885 (6th S. xi. and xii.) ME. PLOMEK gave the readers of 'N. & O..' much valuable material towards a bibliography of English almanacs from 1500 onwards. It is very seldom that such peri- turce cAartce are offered for sale, so that it may be worth while to note an opportunity now offered to those who are curious in such matters. Mr. A. Russell Smith, of 24, Great Windmill Street, London, includes in his October catalogue forty - nine almanacs printed between 1616 and 1696. This list enables one to make some half-dozen addi- tions to that of MB. PLOMEK, extending the date of different publications. I only notice one compiler who is omitted by him : "Broune. A new Almanacke and Prognostication for 1625 by Thos. Broune. Company of btatioiiers, 1625." Many almanacs were printed at Cam- bridge, but in Mr. Jenkinson s ' List of Cam- bridge Books, 1521-1650,'appended to Bowess great catalogue, 18b4, 1 note only the follow- ing :— 1626. Almanack for the Meridian of Cambridge, by W. Strof. 8vo. 1627. Almanacks by Dove, Frost, Lakes, Rivers, Strof, Waurs. 8vo. lii-'-i. Almanack. 8vo. 1631. Almanacks by Clark, Dove, Kidman, Rivers, Swallow, Turner, Winter. All 8vo. 1635. Almanack for 1636. Broadsheet. 1640. Almanacks by Hivers and Swallow. Both 8vo. Mr. A. R. Smith's list supplies three more for 1642, Siwallow, Pond, and Dove, aud Swallow for 1646. There are several more Cambridge - printed almanacs in 1675 aud onwards. Probably some half-dozen were printed in Cambridge alone each year, but the great bulk have perished utterly. As to the varied contents ot these old iiaudbooks of usetul knowledge, ME. PLOMEE says a little, but enough might be digested by a student of the subject to make up a readable volume of the size of, say, the " tfooklover's Library." C. 1 'Ltl '!>. Brighton. LOADED PAPEE.—May one enter a protest in the pages of ' N. <fc (^.' against the growing use of this paper) 1 am just now reading a ponderous tome, aud though only the ordinary folio size, 1 can barely lift it with one hand. But it is with the smaller books that the annoyance is greatest, for one expects to be able to hold them comfortably in the hands for perusal, only to find that one's mental pleasure is hampered by the physical exertion. 1 presume this loaded paper is costly, and one can therefore under- stand the desire to embellish an expensive and, it may be, a standard work ; but 1 should have thought it better on ail grounds not to burden the reader when the work is manifestly ephemeral in its character. HOLCOMBE LNGLEBY. HEADS OF HOUSES AT OXFUED AND CAM- BEIDOE.—It is perhaps worthy of note that whereas the head of every college at Cam- bridge— with the exception of the Provost of King's and the President of Queens'—is designated Master of his particular society, no fewer than seven dillerent titles are in vogue at Oxford to indicate her twenty-one similar dignitaries. The head of Christ Church is known as the Dean, the cathedral