OUR EIGHTH VOLUME. _We avail ourselves of the opportunity afforded by the commencement of a new Volume, to state that our attention has been called to the sharp and somewhat personal tone of several of the recent contributions to "N. & Q.," and which, we are reminded, is the more striking from the marked absence of anything of that character in our earlier Volumes. We are perhaps ourselves somewhat to blame for this, from our strong indisposition to exercise our editorial privilege of omission. Our notice of the subject will, we are sure, be sufficient to satisfy our contributors of the inconvenience which must result to themselves as well as to us from the indulgence in too great license of the pen. We know that when men write_ currente calamo, _words and phrases are apt to escape, the full application of which is not observed, until, as Charles Lamb said, "print proves it;" but being conscious that, when treating on the subjects with which we deal, no one would willingly write anything with design to give offence, we shall in future "play the tyrant" on all such occasions with more vigilance than we have done._ L. K. _The lines_-- "Worth makes the man, the want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello." _are from Pope's_ Essay on Man, _Ep. IV._ 203. _See some curious illustrations of them in our_ First Volume, pp. 246. 362. &c. BLACKAMOOR _will find the_ Cyanogen Soap, _manufactured by Thomas, excellent for removing Photographic stains. It is, however, to be used with care, being_ poisonous. ALBERT. _The history of the phrase_-- "Quem Deus vult perdere," _will be seen in our_ First Volume, pp. 347. 351. 421. 476.; _and_ Second Volume, p. 317. I. G. T. _Gooseberry_ Fool _is the same as pressed or crushed gooseberries, from the French_ fouler, _to press, tread, &c._ SIR F. MADDEN's paper, Was Thomas Lord Lyttelton the Author of Junius's Letters? _is unavoidably postponed until next week._ _Replies to our numerous_ PHOTOGRAPHIC QUERISTS _in our next._ _The_ Index _to our_ SEVENTH VOLUME _will be ready on Saturday the 16th._ _A few complete sets of_ "NOTES AND QUERIES," Vols. i. _to_ vi., _price Three Guineas, may now be had; for which early application is desirable._ "NOTES AND QUERIES" _is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcels, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday._ * * * * * This day is published, price 5s.; or, post free, 5s. 6d. DICKSON AND MOWBRAY ON POULTRY, edited by MRS. LOUDON, with numerous beautiful illustrations by Harvey (including the Cochin-China Fowl). Post 8vo. HENRY G. BOHN, 4, 5, & 6. York Street, Covent Garden. * * * * *