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September 4, 1885.j THE PHOTOGRAPHIC NEWS. 569 There was a rare hunt for photographs of Mr. Parnell last week. The cartoonists of Punch and Judy had both fixed upon the member for Cork as their subject, and as Mr. Parnell’s penchant for perpetually altering his appear ance was known, it was ecessary to discover his latest “ fad.” It turned out that since he was last represented pictorially he had grown a beard, and so he was represented by Mr. Tenniel and Mr. Boucher. But it was almost a pity they did not stick to Mr. Parnell’s portrait as it is best known to the public. As it was, everybody has been asking what Mr. Punch’s cartoon meant last week, for nobody recognised the hirsute Home Ruler. Something more than a new form of card mount is needed to galvanize such a new activity into the portrait studios as followed the introduction of the carte-de-visite ; but without hoping to do more than stimulate business to a very moderate extent, it is not improbable that many of our readers may introduce portraits on rhombic cards as suggested by H. Eckert, of Prague. The suggestion of Herr Eckert to call the new introduction—which recalls the quarried windows of a church—the chonchoid por trait may, perhaps, be acceptable in this country, although, perhaps, the shield por trait might be a more acceptable name. Writing from Geneva, M. Calame describes a shutter, the action of which closely resembles an ordinary parallel ruler, and appears well adapted for placing behind the lens. The essential mechanism is enclosed between two boards, aud the subjoined wood-cuts show the apparatus when closed. Connected with one of the axes, A or a, is a motor apparatus consisting of a drum and spring, the spring being either of india-rubber or of steel, and when this is allowed to act by releasing a catch, the shutter opens as shown above, and again closes, but with that wing down which was originally up. Another shutter has been devised by M. Dubary, of Angouleme, and the accompanying cut gives almost suffi cient explanation of its action. On the plate, A, which fits into a somewhat enlarged diaphragm slit, a flying shutter, H, works through an arc of about 50° or 60°, and exposes by means of the nearly oval slot which is shown. The action of the spring, E, the adjusting screw, F, and
