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and others by whom it is reverenced as some- thing more than a familiar landmark, the chapel teems with historic associations, as set forth in a little volume published last year by Messrs. R. & T. Washbourne, of Paternoster Row, entitled 'The History of the Sardinian Chapel.' This is written with much feeling by Miss Johanna H. Harting, and edited by the Rev. John Dunford, rector. Therein are appropriately chronicled the many events and vicissitudes connected with a building whose records go back as far as the latter portion of Charles I.'s reign. Notable amongst these were the marriage of Frances (better known as Fanny) Burney, the authoress of the famous 'Evelina,' to General D'Arblay, the French refugee, in the summer of 1793, and the baptism of Joseph Nollekens, the sculptor, concerning the dis- persal of whose library MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS wrote recently in *N. & Q.' (ante, p. 86).

Pickaxe and shovel will soon be busy over this honoured place, which as I write stands desolate amidst much ruin and dust another mournful instance of vanishing London.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club, W.

OMAR KHAYYAM : A PARALLEL. I have just come across an amusing parallel to the quatrain which FitzGerald rendered as follows :

Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide, And wash my Body whence the Life has died, And in a Windingsheet of Vine-leaf wrapt, So bury me by some sweet Garden-side.

The following modern Persian epigram was communicated to me orally by a native of Cashmere. It is a skit upon the fondness of his countrymen for the "cup which cheers" :

Biyfi Saki,ki man murdam, Kafan az barge chayam

kun, Ba ab e chay bideh ghuslam, Ba zer e pitla lahdam

kun.

The correspondence with FitzGerald is so close that this conceit admits of being trans- lated in his very words : Ah, with good Tea my fading Life provide, And wash my Body whence the Life has died, And in a Windingsheet of Tea-leaf wrapt, So bury me by some sweet Kettle's side.

JAS. PLATT, Jun.

AMERICAN EMIGRANTS. The great interest taken in American genealogy causes me to think it may be as well to record in 'N. & Q.' that I have discovered a list of foreign settlers in the colonies. To those tracing their pedigrees and being of alien extraction it will be of some value, as in many instances it gives the country of origin, religion, and

both the English and original forms of spelling. The time covered is 1740-61.

The title-page is as follows: "A List of Persons that have intituled themselves to the Benefit of the Act (13 Geo. II.) for naturalizing such Foreign Protestants and others therein mentioned as are settled or shall settle in any of H.M. Colonies."

GERALD FOTHERGILL.

11, Brussels Road, New Wandsworth.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

DOUBTFUL PRONUNCIATIONS. Is there any accepted standard of correctness as to the pronunciation of the following words ? Myihy which most people, I think, pronounce as mith, riming with smith, is often heard at Oxford and elsewhere as imith, riming with blithe. In the 'Oxford Essays,' 1856, Max Miiller spelt the word mi/the, which he afterwards abandoned for the' customary orthography.

The obsolescent words troth, and ivroth, generally pronounced as riming with froth, become in the mouths of many speakers troath, and wroath, so as to rime with both.

Quite recently I heard one of pur bishops, a man of considerable culture, in a sermon speak of "the Slop of Despond," making slough rime with cough. This, I should think, was an individual eccentricity.

A. SMYTHE PALMER.

IS. Woodford.

RICHARD KIRBY, ARCHITECT. Can any reader of * N. & Q.' put me in the way of discovering the whereabouts of the drawings (if any are in existence) executed by Richard Kirby? He was architect to Sir Thomas Smith, of Hill Hall, Essex, in the sixteenth century. DE Mono.

Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Essex.

LARGE-PAPER MARGINS. Is there any technical reason for the narrowness of back margin so unfortunately common in large- paper books 1 An instance may be seen in the otherwise admirable large- paper issue of the 'Letters of Horace Walpole,' recently completed at the Clarendon Press. In this case the upper margin is three-fourths of an inch wide; the lower, two inches and three- eighths ; the outer, an inch and three- eighths ; and the unhappy inner or back margin, where width would be most accept- able, only five-eighths of an inch, than which