SANDER'S HISTORY OF SHENSTONE.--_Will any reader of_ "N. & Q." _oblige me by lending me a copy of Sander's_ History of Shenstone? _Of course I would pay the carriage and expenses. A letter would find me directed_, CID, _Post Office, Stourbridge, Worcestershire._ B. H. A. _For the derivation of_ Czar, _see our_ last Volume, pp. 150. 226. 422. T. H. _On the Lord Mayor being a Privy Councillor, see our_ Fourth Volume passim. S. C. (Norwich). _The line_-- "When Greeks joined Greeks then was the tug of war" --_is from Lee's_ Alexander the Great. PISCATOR _will find ample illustration of_ "ampers and _and the character_ &" _in our_ last Volume (8th), pp. 173. 223. 254. 327. 376. 524. A. BADEN, Jun., _will find that his Query respecting the pronunciation of_ Tea _in Queen Anne's time, has already been treated of in the curious discussion on_ Irish Rhymes _in our_ 6th, 7th, and 8th Volumes. X. Y. Z. _Brother-german is a brother by the father's or mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, or by the mother only._ E. H. McL. _Some examples of _wage_, the singular of _wages_, are given in Todd's_ Johnson: _consult also Richardson_, s. v. GALLO-NITRATE.--1. _We advise you to try the formula given in our former Number_ (Vol. vii., p. 324.) _for positives; 30 grains of nitrate of silver may do, but it is not very active._ 2. _A glass rod is inappropriate; it works up the albumen into a lather._ 3. _Towgood's paper will take the albumen very excellently. As we have often said before, when you may obtain certain excellent results from_ known good _formulae, why waste your time upon uncertainties?_ T. D. L. _If your bath contains the smallest portion of hypo., or any salt of iron, it is useless. Precipitate the silver with salt; collect and reduce it to its metallic state._ "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._ * * * * * GROSJEAN'S CELEBRATED TROWSERS, 16s. per Pair. 109. REGENT STREET. * * * * * ONE THOUSAND BEDSTEADS TO CHOOSE FROM.--HEAL & SON'S Stock comprises handsomely Japanned and Brass-mounted Iron Bedsteads, Children's Cribs and Cots of new and elegant designs, Mahogany, Birch, and Walnut-tree Bedsteads, of the soundest and best Manufacture, many of them fitted with Furnitures, complete. A large Assortment of Servants' and Portable Bedsteads. They have also every variety of Furniture for the complete furnishing of a Bed Room. HEAL & SON'S ILLUSTRATED AND PRICED CATALOGUE OF BEDSTEADS AND BEDDING, sent Free by Post. HEAL & SON, 196. Tottenham Court Road. * * * * *