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. { 476} _Luscious lays._ Warton. _Sadly sweet._ Potter. _Varied strains._ Pope. _Thick-warbled notes._ Milton.
[Footnote 2: Blackwood's Mag., Jan. 1838.]
"I regard the prettie, greeful bard With tearfull, yet delightfull, notes complaine."--_Heliconia._
[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.]
_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?
_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 me more firmly of the correctness of the propositions I have advocated, viz.:
1st. That circumstances _may_ and _do_ arise in which a better result is obtained in producing stereographs, when the chord of the angle of generation is more or less than 2½ inches.