1. Lasteyrie's: - Dried soap 1 oz., melt, and add shell-lac 5 oz., then common soda 1 oz., mastic 1 oz., and lastly, lamp-black 3 drs. Melt, stir together, and, when completely melted, pour into moulds: to be used as Indian ink.

2. Autographic. White soap 100 parts, white was 100, mutton suet 30, shell-lac 50, mastic 50, lamp-black 30 or 35. Melted as above.

3. Lithographic Ink. Heat 40 parts of yellow wax until its vapour kindles on coming in contact with a burning match; then remove it from the fire, and add gradually, in small parts, Marseilles soap 22 parts, gum-lac 28 parts, and mastic 10 parts. Extinguish the flame, and incorporate perfectly with this mixture, lamp-black 9 parts. Then again heat until the vapour can be ignited, then remove it from the fire, and after the flame has been extinguished, pour it upon a stone. The mass is then cut into pieces. - M. Weishaupt.

4. Crayons. White wax 8 oz., white soap 2 oz., shell-lac 2 oz., lamp-black 3 tablespoonfuls. Melt the wax and soap with a brisk fire; stir in the lamp-black; allow the mixture to burn for half a minute, then extinguish the flame, and add the sheel-lac by degrees, stirring continually. Put the mixture on the fire till it kindles, or nearly so. Extinguish the flame, let the mixture cool a little, and pour it into moulds..