_A Practical Photographic Query._--I have never had a practical lesson on photography. I have worked it out as far as I could myself, and I have derived much information in reading the pages of "N. & Q.," so that now I consider myself (although we are all apt to flatter ourselves) an average good manipulator. Independently of the information you have afforded me, I have read all the works upon photography which I could procure; and as the most extensive one is that by Mr. Robert Hunt, I went to the Exhibition of the Photographic Society just opened, thinking I might there see his works, and gain that information from an inspection of them which I desired. My disappointment was great on finding that Mr. Hunt does not exhibit, nor have I been able to see any of his specimens elsewhere. May I ask if Mr. Hunt _ever_ attempts anything practically, or is it to the _theory of photography_ alone that he directs his attention? I begin to fear, unless he lets a little of each go hand-in-hand, that he will mislead some of us amateurs, although I am quite sure unintentionally; for personally I much respect him, having a high opinion of his scientific attainments. A READER OF ALL BOOKS ON PHOTOGRAPHY. * * * * * Replies to Minor Queries. "_Service is no Inheritance_" (Vol. viii., p. 587.; Vol. ix., p. 20.).--P. C. S. S. confesses that he is vulgar enough to take great delight in Swift's _Directions to Servants_, a taste which he had once the good fortune of hearing avowed by no less a man than Sir W. Scott himself. G. M. T., who (Vol. viii., p. 587.) quotes the _Waverley Novels_ for the use of the phrase "Service is no inheritance," will therefore scarcely be surprised to find that it occurs frequently in Swift's _Directions_, and especially in those to the "Housemaid," chap. x. (_quod vide_). P. C. S. S. _Francis Browne_ (Vol. viii., p. 639)--It is not stated in the general pedigrees when or where he died, whether single or married. His sister Elizabeth died unmarried, Nov. 27, 1662; and his elder brother, Sir Henry Browne of Kiddington, in 1689. A reference to their wills, if proved, might afford some information if he, Francis, survived either of these dates. The will of Sir Henry Knollys, of Grove Place, Hants, the grandfather, might be referred to with the same view, and the respective registers of Kiddington and Grove Place. G.