Note 5 — Chapter X
Reading edition
An instrument called The Improved Kaleidoscope has been recently brought out in Paris. It is merely the Telescopic Kaleidoscope deteriorated. It consists of a lens fixed at the distance of about two inches in front of the reflectors, and can therefore give symmetrical pictures of objects only at one distance, while it cannot be used as an ordinary Kaleidoscope. The instrument described in the preceding page, with a lens that can be slipped off, is a much better Kaleidoscope.