_Antiquarian Photographic Club._--This association for the interchange of photographic views of objects of antiquarian interest, has now nearly attained the number of members to which it is proposed to limit it. For the few remaining vacancies preference will be given, for obvious reasons, to parties resident in varied localities. Any gentlemen or ladies desirous to join the club, may send their names, with specimens of their skill, to the _Honorary Secretary_, care of Mr. Bell, 186. Fleet Street. The amount of the annual subscription is not yet fixed, but as all that can be required will be to meet the expenses incident to the receipt and interchange of the photographs, it must necessarily be very limited. {463} * * * * * Replies to Minor Queries. _Erroneous Forms of Speech: Mangel Wurzel_ (Vol. vii., p. 329.).--Against the dictum of E. G. R., I beg insertion of the following quotation from the _Agricultural Gazette_, March 4, 1848, p. 166.: "Mangold wurzel is simply the German of _beet-root_. 'Mangel wurzel,' on the other hand, is one founded on an idea, which, though absurd, did not the less effectually answer the object of those who introduced the plant. 'Scarcity root,' or 'Famine root,' made a good heading to an advertisement." And Rham, _Dictionary of the Farm_, p. 62.: "The German name is 'Mangold wurzel,' or 'Mangold root;' but it is sometimes pronounced 'Mangel wurzel,' which means _scarcity root_; and, by a strange translation, it is called in French _racine d'abondance_, as well as _racine de disette_. The name of field-beet is much more appropriate." I hope E. G. R. will, however, not insist on classing those who say and write "mangold" with those who would write "reddishes, sparrowgrass, and cowcumbers." I should be sorry to be suspected of any one of the three last; but "mangold" I will say and write till the authority of the best German scholars decrees otherwise. GEO. E. FRERE. _The Whetstone_ (Vol. vii., pp. 208. 319.).--Herbert, in his _Typographical Antiquities_, vol. ii. p. 1144., cites a book entitled, _Fower great Liers striving who shall win the Silver Whetstone. Also a Resolution to the Countreyman, proving it utterly unlawful to buy or use our yearely Prognostications_, by W. P.: 8vo., printed by R. Waldegrave; no date. H. C. _Charade_ (Vol. vi., p. 604.).-- "By mystic sign and symbol known, To Daniel, wise and meek, alone, Was Persia's coming _wo_ foreshown. "And in great Caesar's proudest day, The Gospel held a mightier sway, And _man_ shone forth with purest ray. "But when, in Babylonia chain'd, _Man_ of his deepening _wo_ complain'd, A _woman_ conquering both, in faithful Esther reign'd." SOPHRONIA SPHYNX.