The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (March 1890)

THE OPTICAL MAGIC LANTERN JOURNAL —— PHOTOGRAPHIC ENLARGER. Entered at Vol. 1.—No. 10. [stationers' a MARCH 1, 1890. Price One Penny. CONTENTS. PAGE. + PAGE: Notes vsse. ces: sass see. eee see 13 Editorial Table... = 77 The Magic Lantern: Its ConThe Facile... ee we eee TT truction, Illumination, Optics Flashes on Lantern Topics ... 7S and Uses (chap.9) —.... «TH Making and Painting (Comiz) Oxygen Cylinder Explosion ... 75 Slides nk see ee ree ee 0S ‘Transparencies from Paper Foote’s Polyopticon 7S Prints without a Camera... 75 Applications for Patents... 79 Lantern Slides and Lantern Correspondence... 0. + 79 Slide Making... .. «70 Selections ... 2 0 + so Hardwich on Scott's Warm-air Notes and Queries ... so Saturator... Ca Contents oF No, 9. Notices—Notes—The Magic Lantern: Its Construction, Illumination, Optics, and Uses (chap. 9}-Experiences of Professor Eadweard Muybridge—Gauging tbe Contents of a Gas Cylinder~-Odds and Ends— Railway Station Advertising by Means of the Lantern—The New Limelight — Editorial. Table — Correspondence — Notes and Queries. Notices. THE Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger is issued on the 1st of every month, price One Penny, and may be obtained from all Newsvendors, Railway News Stalls, Photographic Dealers, or from the Publishers, at the following rates, post free :— Continental. United States. 12 months 1/6 2/ 60 cents. Single copies... /1} ... [2 » Advertisements (Scale of Charges), displayed :— Ls. d. Front page... a ose ow. 4 00 4 sie tes <a ss. (eighth) ... 15 oO Back ,, or facing matter (whole) ... 3 10 0 ” ” ” ” (half) 200 3 ay x a (quarter)... I 2 6 ‘i ” 9 Fr (eighth) ... I 3 Ordinary page .» (whole) ... 3 0 0 ” ” chalf) 115 0 ” 33 (quarter)... ¥ O O ne + saa --(eighth) ... 10 oO ae + per Finch in column ... 6 0 Special quotations for a series. Exchange Column, General Wants and Sales, &c.— 20 words, Od.; and for every 3 additional words, 1d. Advertisements must reach the office not later than the 24th of each month. All cheques and postal orders to be made payable to Taylor Brothers. Editorial communications must be addressed, The Editor ; advertisements and business communications to Taylor Brothers, care of the Publishers, Dorset Works, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C. American Agents :—The International News Co., 83 and 85, Duane Street, New York City. Notes. AT a meeting lately held at St. James's Hall, Regent-street, W., it was decided that The Lantern Society be formed. A committee, con-. sisting of Messrs. Bethel, Cresswell, Gladstone, Holding, Mackie, Sheppee, and Shipton, were appointed to formulate rules to be submitted to a general meeting, the date of which will be duly announced, and Mr. T. H. Holding, 46, Chesiltonroad, Fulham, S.W., was appointed Secretary pro tem. Tue Crystal Palace Exhibition is to commence on the Irth inst., and close on Saturday, 29th instant. In addition to the published schedule, a silver medal will be awarded for the best picture, irrespective of subject, amongst those pictures which have never been previously shown at a public exhibition. Two additional silver medals will be given by Mr. B. Wollaston and Mr. J. F. Peasgood for the two best pictures, irrespective of class, in the amateur and professional sections. “Ts photography always truthful? One has but to inspect an advertisement which appears in many druggists’ windows, setting forth certain claims pertaining to a preparation for producing luxuriant hair. In it we find a series of portraits of a lady said to be taken at periods of several weeks (?) apart in order to show the rapidity with which her tresses have grown ; but we also find that in each she wears the same dress, in which the various folds and even creases are identical. Meantime her hair has grow a few feet in length.” Thus writes a correspondent. Ar a demonstration by Mr. Preston, given at the Shefheld Photographic Society, it was thought that in point of brilliancy the oxy-hydrogen and etho-oxygen lights were about equal ; and that for general convenience, where house-gas was not readily attainable, the latter was the best form of light ; whilst as regards the general safety of the two the former was the most desirable.