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Dean, sculptured by Sir J. E. Boehm, R.A. He is represented clad in a surplice, with his right hand placed upon his breast and his left hand by his side. Along the frieze of the tomb is inscribed :

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, second son of Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich. Dean of this Collegiate Church, 1861 to 1881. Born December 13, 1815. Died July 18, 1881. "1 know that all things come to an end, but Thy Commandments are exceeding broad."

The slab in the floor which covers the remains of the Dean and his Lady is in-
 * -ribed to

Augusta Elizabeth Fredrica, 5th daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, the beloved wife of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1 'ean of this Collegiate Church. For thirty years the devoted servant of Queen Victoria and the Queen's mother and children for twelve years the unwearied friend of the people of Westminster, ind the inseparable partner of her husband's toils and hopes, uniting many hearts from many lands and drawing all to things above. Born April 3, 1822, died March 1, 1876. Also the above Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, who died 18 July, 1881. ' We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren."

DK. ARNOLD.

Rugby. Dr. Arnold was buried in the School Chapel. A grey marble cross in the pavement, inscribed with his name, marks lue site of his grave just in front of the lectern.

A monument to his memory has been placed in the north transept. It consists of a recumbent effigy executed in brown stone by J. Thomas. The figure lies within an erched recess in the north wall, and at the back is the following inscription, written by Arnold's old friend the Chevalier Bunsen :

Vir * Rev *

THOMAS ARNOLD, S.T.P. Hittoriae recent ' aevi ' tradendffi ' apud ' Oxonien '

pro ' Reg ' nujus * Scholae * per ' annos ' xiv antistes ' strenuus *

unice ' dilectus Thucydidem * illustravit ' Historiam * Romanam

scripsit

Populi ' Christiani libertatem " dignitatem ' vindicavit ' fldem con-

firmavit ' scriptis ' vita

Christum ' prsedicavit ' apud ' vos

Juvenum ' aninios " monumentum ' sibi ' deligens.

Tanti ' viri ' effigies " vobis ' hie * est ' proposita

Corpus ' sub * altari ' conquiescit Anima ' in " suam 'sedem * patre ' vocante ' immi-

gravit

fortis ' pia ' laeta &at " a ' d ' xiu Jun * MDCCXC ' Mort ' a ' d * xn *

Jun ' MDCCCXLJI Amici ' posuerunt.

In the chapel vestry are preserved the plain table and chair which Dr. Arnold used n the Sixth Form room. They bear the

following inscriptions written by Arch- bishop Benson :

Haec Tabula

Thomae Arnold!

libros chartas manus

inter discipulos disserentis scribentis orantis, annos xiv. sustinebat.

In hac sella

Arnoldus

Litteras docebat

Sacras Scripturas aperiebat,

ad virtutis veritatisque amorem

Domini Jesu Christi imitationem

Voce Fronte Moribus

Suos excitebat.

Westminster. On 15 July, 1896, the late Dr. Bradley, Dean of Westminster, unveiled a bust of Dr. Arnold which had been placed in the Abbey by subscriptions from old friends and former pupils of the great school- master. It was sculptured by Mr. Alfred Gilbert, R.A., and erected in the Baptistry opposite that of his son, Matthew Arnold, and in close proximity to those of Words- worth, Maurice, Keble, and Kingsley.

JOHN T. PAGE.

( To be continued.)

" SPABBOWGBASS." (Cf. " Sparrowbills," US. viii. 449, 494; x. 157.) Dr. Wright's ' Dialect Dictionary ' says that this is a cor- ruption of " asparagus." The ' N.E.D.' is much more reserved, and rightly so, if com- parative philology goes for anything. Walker's ' Dictionary ' and Southey favour the vulgar ; and so does the Turkish koosh konmaz (literally, " what the sparrow alights not on "), as well as the Arabic word for sparrow, 'asfoor (ao-^apayos). Skeat's posthumous Glossary has " Sperage, ' the herb asparagus, so called by Gerard and all the old botanists ' (Nares)." He has also : " Grasse Church, of the herb market there kept," from Stowe's account of Gracechurch Street.

In W. Somersetshire, in the same way, the wild geranium (Robertianum) is called " sparrow birds " ; and " sparrowgrass " is the only term for asparagus. The " stiff- ness and pedantry " of euphuism first called common " grass " or " sparrowgrass " in the seventeenth century by the name of " asparagus," which is wrong.

H. H. JOHNSON.

CLAN MACLEOD. When recently at Inch- nadamph, Sutherland, I inspected the ancient graveyard of Assynt Church. Apart from the usual miserably forlorn aspect of Northern graveyards, I found the old burial