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one. Probably all the blue sections of the field are cut by a machine which shapes hundreds at once ; therefore it will be timesaving and convenient to make the fim- briated arms of the cross of St. Patrick of the same size as the white arms of the cross of St. Andrew. Also it is probable that the crimson silk and bunting used for flags is woven much narrower than the white, is much more expensive, and is not nearly so strong. There is much common sense and strength in the design of the Union Flag, while the counterchanging reminds one of the policy which caused Mary, Queen of Scots, to name her son James Charles Charles James, so that neither Scotland nor France should feel hurt. A seamstress of flags at one of the Government dockyards would no doubt explain the why and wherefore of the narrowed arms and fim- briations of the cross of St. Patrick to MB. CRAWFORD, if he questioned her quietly and personally. A small saving of expen- sive silk in each flag must make a material difference at the end of a year at Chatham alone, where about 18,000 flags are made each year ; and flags with all the azure parts of equal size will be made much more easily and quickly. SAX-DANE.

TYRONE POWER, THE AMERICAN ACTOR (10 S. viii. 348; ix. 494). Surely MR. HIBGAME has erred in crediting this actor to America in his caption. Power was born in Ireland, and his first public appearances on the stage took place in Wales, and later at London. He, however, made three or four extended professional visits to the United States, and published his ' Impres- sions of America.' ' The New International Encyclopaedia ' (New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903) describes him as "an Irish comedian." N. W. HILL.

New York.

MICHAELMAS DAY: ITS DATE (10 S. ix. 150). It is perhaps sufficient to quote 'The Dictionary of Christian Antiquities,' ii. 1177, for the general principle which regulated the dates of Michaelmas :

" The festivals of angels, now mainly represented, so far as the Western Church is concerned, by the festival of St. Michael and All Angels on Sept. 29, ......were simply commemorations of [supposed]

historic events, namely, manifestations of the archangel at some special time and place, or the dedication of a church n his honour."

Thus 8 May is associated with a'manifesta- tion on Monte Gargano ; and 29 September with the dedication of a church on the

Via Salaria, six miles from Rome (see Procter and Frere, ' New History of the Book of Common Prayer,' p. 325).

LAWRENCE PHILLIPS. Sibson Rectory, Atherstone.

Duchesne connects the observance of 29 September with the dedication of a church on the Via Salaria on that date.

St. Michael is said to have appeared on Mount Garganus (Apulia) on 8 May, A.D. 493.

These are festivals of St. Michael : the addition of " All Angels " was made at the last revision of the Prayer Book.

In the Eastern Church 8 November is the festival of the Angels. In this case it is the name of St. Michael that has been added to the title of the feast.

FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Grindleton Vicarage, Clitheroe.

See ' Medii ^Evi Kalendarium,' vol. ii. p. 140. The article is too long for insertion in * N. & Q.' JOHNSON BAILY.

See Hone's ' Every-Day Book,' 8 May.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

[The REV. F. JARRATT also thanked for reply.]

TlNTAGEL : ITS PRONUNCIATION (10 S. X.

148). I have always heard this name pro- nounced with the stress upon the middle syllable. This corresponds with the usage of our poets. Take, for instance, the follow- ing lines from Tennyson's ' Idylls of the King ' (Guinevere), which should be conclu- sive :

There came a day as still as heaven, and then They found a naked child upon the sands Of wild Dundagil by the Cornish sea.

JAMES PLATT, Jun.

Tintagel (stress on the a a palimbacchius) is certified by Tennyson, ' Idylls of the King,' seven times (' Coming of A.,' 186, 198, 366 ; ' M. and V.,' 10 ; ' Guinevere,' 292 ; ' Last T.,' 392, 505) ; Swinburne, ' Tristram of Lyon- nesse,' four times (ii. 165, viii. 64, ix. 187, and Epilogue, 1. 47) ; and Matthew Arnold, ' Tristram and Iseult,' twice. R. S. Hawker also (' The Silent Tower of Bottreaux ' and ' The Quest of the Sangreal ' ) scans it the same (with variations of orthography).

H. K. ST. J. S.

The local pronunciation, as I always heard it during the eighteen years I resided not many miles from " King Arthur's Castle," was " Tintadjill," the a being short and the g soft ; and I remember much amusement