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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. OCT. 24,

harsh discords of the Cairene dialect became a source of constant irritation to me. My further experiences at Zanzibar and in the Persian Gulf taught me that it was futile to lay down any fixed rules with regard to the pronunciation of colloquial Arabic. This makes the transliteration of modern Arabic a difficult matter. Ought we to write Mu- hammad or Mohammed in Turkey, where the name is pronounced Mehmed, or Sulaiman in Morocco, where the name is pronounced S'llman ? In ordinary books of travel the best course is, I think, to write the name according to the local pronunciation ; but in historical works the classical mode of transliteration would probably be preferable. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

ARABIC-ENGLISH (10 S. x. 284). I cordially agree with the remarks of COL. PRIDEAUX. By way of addition to his interesting note I should like to point out that the name Moulai Hafid is from the same root as that of the poet Hafiz. The two names are, how- ever, vocalized differently, and should not be pronounced alike. The poet's name is a trochee, Hafiz, stressed upon the first syllable. The Sultan's name is an iambus Hafid, stressed upon the second syllable. Finally, while Hafiz is, so far as I know, invariably a male name, the Sultan's name can be used as feminine. I know of a charm- ing young Indian lady who bears it, the wife of a Musulman friend. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

The following example may be added. In a case now proceeding in a London court a number of Asiatics are witnesses, one of whom a daily paper names " Sam Sudeen " (for Shamsu-d-din " sun of religion ").

DONALD FERGUSON.

MICHAELMAS DAY : ITS DATE (10 S. x. 150, 194). At the first reference MR. LYNN is in error in saying that the 8th of May is no longer " observed in the Western Church,' unless by "the Western Church" he means the Anglican. The feast of the Apparitior of St. Michael is kept on that day as a greatei double by all Catholics using the Latin Rite though on 9 March, 1742, the Congregatior appointed by Benedict XIV. for the reforn of the Breviary unanimously agreed t( suppress it, " as one in which only th< diocese of Siponto had any concern ' (Batiffol's ' History of the Roman Breviary, p. 310).

At the second reference the REV. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS is, I think, in error in saying tha St. Michael's Church on the Via Salaria wa six miles from Rome. It was, I think, at th

eventh milestone. Michaelmas Day is a ouble of the second class. The feast of the uardian Angels (instituted by Pope Paul V. r nd kept on 2 October) is a greater double.

In some dioceses the last festival is kept n the first Sunday in September, as a double- f the second class with an octave. At ortina d'Ampezzo in Tirol this year I was urprised to find it kept on the last Sunday i August, i.e., the 30th.

What is the connexion between Michaelmas- )ay and the feast observed on 8 May ? "here must be some, for. under 29 September he Roman Martyrology says :

In monte Gargano venerabilis memoria beati lichaelis Archangel!, quando ipsius nomine ibi onsecratafuit Ecclesia, vili quidem facta schemate,. ed caelesti prsedita virtute."

The feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel is ept in some dioceses (including the Catholic- ioceses of England) as a greater double on 8 March ; and the feast of St. Raphael the Archangel is similarly kept on 24 October.

I possess a book, " Imprinted at London or the Company of Stationers, 1635," ailed " The Psalter or Psalmes of David,, ifter the Translation of the great Bible,, ointed as it shall be said or sung in churches. /Vith the Morning and Evening Prayer, and ertain additions of Collects, and other the irdinary Service. Gathered out of the Booke of Common Prayer." This book has a he year, and against 8 May is printed ' Apar. of Mich."
 * alendar with a saint for almost all days in

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" STAR AND GARTER TAVERN," PALL MALL 10 S. x. 244, 296). The Tatler of 2 Sept.,. L903, is hardly correct, I think, in placing ' The Star and Garter " on the " shady " side of Pall Mall, instead of on the north side, opposite Schomberg House. Perhaps; The Tatter's observation was founded on a vague allusion to the situation of the tavern in one edition (I am not sure which) of ' Old" and New London,' where it is described as- being " westward of Carlton House," which, it certainly was.

Neither does All the Year Round vouchsafe any evidence that the house " stood on the site of the Carlton Club." If it did, it must have been No. 94, Pall Mall, No. 93 having been Evans's, and later Sotheby's, the book auctioneer's. In this case it would have found itself next door to another such place, the Royal Hotel, No. 95 a contingency which, however common in hotel streets, to-day, is unlikely to have happened at the.- beginning of last century.