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August 7, 1885.j THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 505 It killed him in the long run, and nearly killed me.” Finally the painter made a small wax model, finding it was impossible to draw direct from nature. To obtain the correct shape of the shadow, the model was placed in strong sunlight " with a sheet of paper on the table, and the moment I had got the shadow I wanted, I rapidly drew the outline of it on the white sheet. I had to make haste, for the light shifts so rapidly that the outline was con stantly changing.” It is very clear that all this trouble would have been saved by taking a photograph. Perhaps this model was for an early work. Now-a-days the artist would be wiser, for the time taken in securing this wax model would have almost sufficed for the painting of a picture. That the promoters of the proposed new photographic club (see pages 335 and 458) find it by no means easy to reconcile loud declarations of amateurism, and the actual fact of the provisional committee consisting partly of the professional element, may very readily be believed. Indeed, the proposed association, if it should really be formed, bids fair not to be a club at all. The essence of a club is power of exclusion from membership by the general body of members ; and if the suggested affiliation of country societies should be carried out, this characteristic element must be absent. Each member of any affiliated society must really be an indu bitable member of the club, or he cannot be supplied with alcoholic refreshments at the club, without bringing the executive into an unpleasant intimacy with the law. The essence of amateurism is not making a profit by the exercise of a craft, and this always has been the real touch stone of admission to the old-established Amateur Field Club. The penalty of advertising in the Times the fact that you have an increase in your family is rather terrible ; and we are bound to say, from the letter of a correspondent who has poured out his woes to us, that photographers contribute to that penalty considerably more than a mite. In the first place, on the day following that on which his announcement appeared, he received by an early post from two different applicants, photographic copies of the list of births, and was requested, if he kept the copies, to forward six stamps. He had no desire to keep the copies, and he asks why should he be put to the trouble of returning these copies and paying the postage. About the middle of the day he had circulars from three photographers who lay themselves out especially for the photographing of babies; but the culmination arrived when by the last post came a prospectus from an enterprising gentleman, who had not only had great experience in the taking of live babies, but was also an adept at “ post mortems 1 ” It is too bad for a photograph to be made the medium of conveying an insult. The defendant in a breach of promise case tried last week at Liverpool added insult to injury when he sent the plaintiff her photographs, with the words “ my darling” scratched out, and “false” written across the face. It is satisfactory to find that the lady recovered £500 damages, for a more personal mode of annoyance can scarcely be imagined. It is rumoured that the public will be asked to pay the expenses of investing Prince Henry of Battenberg with the order of the Garter. As the fees and the outfit cost from a minimum of £800 up to almost any sum according to circumstances, it is only right the ratepayers should have the opportunity of seeing what their money is to purchase. According to the World, the full dress of the order is never worn, and has only been put on in later years by a German highness, who once donned the attire to see how he looked, and be photographed in it. If copies of this photograph could only be procured and distributed among the members of Parliament when the request for the money is made, they might have an important influence on the debate. According to our contemporary, the German potentate in question looked like “ a magnificent harlequin with a cap and plumes,” and if so, it is doubtful whether even the most loyal legislator would care to vote the money of the hard-working public simply to make a well-favoured and exceedingly fortunate young gentleman look like a mountebank. The Society for Photographing Relics of Old London has just published its issue for 1885. The subjects include “ Cardinal Wolsey’s Palace ” in Fleet Street (now tenanted by a hair-dresser); Churchyard Court, Inner Temple ; Fountain Court; Middle Temple Hall; Gray’s Inn Field Court; Gray’s Inn Hall; The Garden House of Clements Inn, where the statue of a negro with a sun-dial used to be until, a few months ago, it was mysteriously removed ; Clifford’s Inn ; Staple Inn, &c. Buda-Pest, in gathering together the materials for a Hungarian National Exhibition, has not neglected to en sure that photography and photographers shall be properly represented. Among the exhibits, the following deserve special mention. Large views, coloured and uncoloured, shown by the firm of C. Koller and Co.; excellent genre pictures by Rupp recht, of Odenburg ; plaques by Letztee; costumed figures from the opera by Kalmar; collotypes by Divald and Eperjes; Rembrandt portraits by Mai; and also a very fine collection of photo-lithographs by G. Klsz, Another gas bag explosion ; this time at the Agricul tural Hall. In these cases the mischief is not from the direct consequence of the explosion, but from the panic; and it is not often that the result is no more serious than on Tuesday last, when the worst thing that happened was the destruction of a reporter’s hat. The instruction in photography which was inaugurated with so much success a year ago at the Birkbeck Institu- I tion by Mr. Chapman Jones will be continued during the