The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (June 1898)

86 The Optical Magic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. A Curious Law Action.—A peculiar libel action has just been decided at Port Elizabeth, in which a verdict of £5 with costs was given. It appears that a photographer exhibited a photograph of the plaintiff in his studio window with the following notice attached :— “This gentleman, Mr. Lundin, will much oblige by paying the balance for his portraits, which has been standing since September, 1897. I suppose fis is another example of Christianity as it is practised.” o > od Mr. F. A. Bridge at the Crystal Palace. —During the three weeks of the Photographic Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, a selection of lantern slides was projected on the screen in the theatre each evening under the directorship of Mr. F. A. Bridge. About 2,500 by some of the best workers were shown. The whole of the exhibitions were run without the slightest hitch of any kind, nor is this to be wondered at, with Mr. Bridge as director, Mr. R. BR. Beard at the lantern, and the electric light in the hands of Mr. Carr—three gentlemen who are adepts at the several departments which they undertook. bead > bd Presentation of a Gold Watch.—So satisfied were the exhibitors at the Photographic Trades Exhibition lately held at the Portman Rooms, that they subscribed for and presented a handsome gold watch to Mr. Arthur C. Brookes, the organiser and secretary. & ee baad Agency for French Slides.—Messrs. Jos. Levi & Company, 97, Hatton Garden, E.C., have been appointed sole wholesale agents for the well-known lantern and stereoscopic slides made by Levi & Sons, of Paris. > > > Change of Address. — Messrs. George Mason & Company, who have long occupied premises in Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, have (on 28th ult.) removed to more commodious and central premises at 120 & 124, Buchanan Street, Glasgow. Their new catalogue issued from this address is an excellent book con| taining much useful information, in addition to illustrations and prices of apparatus. % ~ oe Affiliation of Photographic Societies.— The following lectures, etc., are available for cir culation, application for which should be made | to the Assistant Secretary, Royal Photographic Society, 12, Hanover Square, London, W. Lantern slide making, by Mr, J. A. Hodges, F.R.P.8S., with lantern slide illustrations; negative making, by Mr. Chapman Jones, F.LC., F.C.S., F.R.P.S., with lantern slide illustrations ; pictorial photography, by Mr. A. Horsley Hinton, with Jantern-slide illustrations ; architectural photography, by Mr. H. W. Bennett, F.R.P.S., with lantern slide illustrations; intensification and reduction, by Mr. John McIntosh, with lantern slide illustrations ; hand camera work, by Mr. W. Thomas, with lantern slide illustrations; portraiture, by Mr. Harold Baker, with lantern slide illustrations ; elementary photographic optics, by Mr. R. Child Bailey, with lantern slide illustrations ; bromide enlarging, by Mr. H. John Gear, F.R.P.S., with lantern slide illustrations; a set of 67 lantern slides, entitled ‘‘ Linen and its Production,” with explanatory notes by the Brechin ~ Photographic Association ; a set of 33 slides by the Rotterdam Photographic Society ; a set of 60 slides by the Holborn Camera Club; a set of 50 slides by the Hampstead Photographic Club ; a set of 68 slides by the North Middlesex Photographic Society; a set of slides sent by ; the Leeds Photographic Society; a set of 50 slides by the Southport Social Photographic Club. Rd ~ a Making use of ‘*‘ Gladstone’ Slides.—In a Scottish border town well known as a Radical stronghold, an enterprising stationer, who is a lanternist, has made good use these few days of National mourning for Britain’s greatest statesman, of a set of slides of Hawarden, including slides of Mr. Gladstone. He set up about a dozen in the front of the | window, and they proved a splendid attraction. The energetic lanternist and stationer alluded ' tois Mr. F. J. Walker, of Galashiels. Automatic. Acetylene’ Lantern Lamp. An MONG the novelties in last issue we rat LCA devoted a paragraph to an auto‘ matic lamp which had been made BAN by Mr. W. Tylar, of Birmingham, ane and promised during the month to OZ, give the apparatusa trial. The lamp SZ in question, we may say, is the model from which it is proposed to make them commercially. As all parts of the lamp and generator are enclosed, thus preventing many ' from understanding the principles on which it