The Photographic art-journal . g bowsof ribbon worn at the back of the head,a costume borrowed from the Roman pea-sants. The fashion for young people tocover the hair with a silken net, whichsome centuries ago was prevalent both inthis country and in France, has been againrevived. Some of the more recent of thesenets are very elegant in their form. The hats and bonnets have, during thelast few years, been so moderate in size,and generally so graceful in form, that wewill not criticise them more will be sufficient to observe that let thebrim be what shape it will, the crownshoul
The Photographic art-journal . g bowsof ribbon worn at the back of the head,a costume borrowed from the Roman pea-sants. The fashion for young people tocover the hair with a silken net, whichsome centuries ago was prevalent both inthis country and in France, has been againrevived. Some of the more recent of thesenets are very elegant in their form. The hats and bonnets have, during thelast few years, been so moderate in size,and generally so graceful in form, that wewill not criticise them more will be sufficient to observe that let thebrim be what shape it will, the crownshould be nearly of the form and size of thehead. If this principle were always keptin view, as it shoald be, we should neveragain see the monster hats and bonnetswhich some years ago, and even in thememory of persons now living, caricaturedthe lovely forms of our country-women. 262 The Photographic Art-Journal. May, A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE.* BY M. A. GAUDIN. Translated from the French of La Lumiere by W. Grigg, A. ON THE FIXING WITH THE BATH OF SILVERAND ON FIXING WITHOUT y the operation of fixingwith the chloride of gold,the proof receives a me-taliic varnish, which ap-pears to be an alloy ofgold and silver; the de-j posit of the gold in an excessivelylight layer dulls the silver where-ever it is exposed ; which increas-es the tone of the blacks ; therough composition which forms thelights of the proof acquires, also,more lustre in each of the infinitely minuteprismatic angles composing its tissue; anunpolished surface of greater brilliancy,therefore, and a firmer adherence of thiscomposition results, also, from the interpo-sition of the metallic varnish. I have endeavored, without success, tosubstitute platina for gold ; but not so withsilver. Certain argentiferous liquids, underthe influence of the pile, give extreme so-lidity to a proof; the lights take an extra-ordinary brilliancy, and were it not for theextreme tendency to crystalize, and pro-duc
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