_ Croxall.
_Watchful._ Philips.
_Witching._ Proctor.
_Woodland._ Smith.
_Wretched._ Shirley.
_Wronged._ P. Fletcher.
_Yearly._ Drayton.
_Young._ Lewis.

The character of the mere song alone has been described in the following
terms:

_Melodious lay._ Potter.
_Lofty song._ Yalden.
_A storm of sound._ Shelley.
_Impressive lay._ Merry.
_Swelling slow._ Kirk White.
_Tremulously slow._ C. Smith.
_Wild melody._ Shelley.
_Thick melodious note._ Lloyd.
_Hymn of lore._ Logan.
_Melting lay._ Henley.
_Harmonious woe._ Pomfret.
_Well-tuned warble._ Shakspeare.
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_Luscious lays._ Warton.
_Sadly sweet._ Potter.
_Varied strains._ Pope.
_Thick-warbled notes._ Milton.

W. PINKERTON.

Ham.

[Footnote 2: Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1838.]

[Footnote 3:

"I regard the prettie, greeful bard
With tearfull, yet delightfull, notes complaine."--_Heliconia._

[Footnote 4: Lays of the Minnesingers.]

[Footnote 5: Weekly Visitor, July, 1835.]

[Footnote 6: "Night's sable birds, which plain when others
sleep."--_Thaumantia._]

[Footnote 7: Evening Elegy.--_Poetical Calendar._]

[Footnote 8: Harleian Miscellany, vol. viii.]

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PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE.

_Photographic Exhibition._--We understand that the Photographic Society has
made arrangements for an exhibition of photographs in the metropolis during
the months of January and February next. The exhibition will not be
confined to the works of native photographers, but will comprise specimens
of the most eminent foreign artists, who have been specially invited to
contribute. From the advances which have been made in this favourite art,
even since the recent exhibition in the rooms of the Society of Arts, we
may confidently anticipate that the display on the present occasion will be
one of the highest interest.

_How much Light is obstructed by a Lens?_--Can any of your scientific
correspondents furnish me with an approximation to the quantity of light
which is transmitted through an ordinary double achromatic lens, say of
Ross, Voightlander, or any other celebrated maker?

LUX.

_Stereoscopic Articles._--I cannot agree to my opponent's assumed amendment
(?) (Vol. viii., p. 419.) _space_, for the simple reason that it would be
virtually abandoning the whole of the points in dispute between us; when
farther discussion and more mature consideration, only tend to convince m