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each instrument, and on this basis com- pares the effects of the orchestration to those seen in a glorious sunrise.

J. T. F. Winterton, Lines.

THE TERMINAL " INCK " (11 S. x. 268). Is this not the same as the ancient Gothic root ing or ink, conveying the meaning " son " or " descendant " ?

F. W. T. LANGE.

St. Bride Foundation, Bride Lane, E.G.

SIR JOHN GILBERT (11 S. x. 102, 144, 183, 223, 262, 292, 301). I had the good fortune to enjoy the friendship of the late Sir John Gilbert, and saw a good deal of him during the latter years of his life, both at the Garrick Club and his delightful home at Vanbrugh Park. I remember telling him that 1 regarded him as one of my earliest in- structors, inasmuch as the first book I ever possessed was illustrated by him, and I could thoroughly enjoy his pictures long before being able to read the accompanying letterpress.

I once asked him if he could give me any idea of the number of drawings on wood he had executed. He said it was so vast that he had long ago given up the attempt to calculate it, but he sent me a book which gives one some notion as to his earliest work. This little volume is en- titled ' City Scenes ; or, A Peep into Lon- don,' and was published by Harvey & Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1828. In his letter accompanying it he says :

" When I first began to seek for employment in making drawings on wood to illustrate books, I called on Harvey at his shop in Gracechurch Street, showed him some specimens of .my drawing on wood I had no engraving from my work yet to show and asked him if he could put anything into my hands. He handed me the little volume 1 now send, saying, ' Make us new pictures, discarding those which are antiquated, and substituting more modern scenes.' This I believe was the first book I

ever illustrated. " (Probably about 1 836) " This

Harvey was a good soul, a Quaker, who thee'd and thou'd me. His sister was Mrs. Hack, who wrote a history of Greece, and many other books for the young."

The volume alluded to (' Grecian Stories,' 1840) was subsequently given me by my old friend. Within it he has written :

" The pictures that illustrate this little book were so highly thought of by the author and the publisher as to be considered worthy of the most careful printing, so this copy was printed on India paper and sent to the illustrator. Remember it is more than fifty years ago when he made these drawings" [written in 1891]. "This little volume is unique."

These illustrations are remarkable for their classical grace and their minute finish, and present yet another phase of the prolific- artist's extraordinary versatility.

J. ASHBY-STERRY.

LOUVAIN AND MALINES : OLD PAINTED' GLASS (11 S. x. 268). One of the best specimens of Malines stained glass in London- is the east window of St. George's Church, Hanover Square. It is a " Jesse window,"" brought from Malines by the Marquis of Ely, and purchased for the church by public- subscription in 1841.

Last June it was much damaged by art ' explosion caused by a militant Suffragette,. and had to be taken down and restored. It is now in its place again.

JOHN MURRAY.

50, Albemarle Street, \V.

BRITISH COINS AND STAMPS (11 S. x, 191, 235, 255, 276). Some notes 011 the position of the sovereign's head on English- coinage were contributed by W. Staven- hagen Jones to The Antiquarian Magazine* i. 129-31. ROLAND AUSTIN.

Gloucester.

EARLY RAILWAY TRAVELLING (11 S. x. 170, 215, 252). The following is extracted from. Freeling's ' Grand Junction Railway Companion,' 1838 :

" flegulatioiis

Of the Grand Junction Railroad Company. " Booking. There will be no booking places' except at the Company's offices at the respective stations. Each Booking Ticket for the first-class trains is numbered to correspond with the seat taken. The places by the mixed trains are nofc numbered."

A. N. W. FYNMORE. Berkhamsted.

BURIAL-PLACE OF ELEANOR OF PRO- VENCE (11 S. x. 150, 195). The Queen died at the nunnery of Arnbresbury, 24 June, 1291, and was buried there, as S. B. tells us at the second reference ; but Agnes Strickland, in her ' Lives of the Queens of England,' mentions a fact in regard to her profession as a nun which may be of interest to the readers of ' N. & Q. '

King Henry III. died 1272, and Queen Eleanor retired to the nunnery of Ambres- bury in 1280 ; but she did not take the veil until certainly 1284, and Matthew of West- minster states not until 1287, as she delayed her religious profession until she had ob- tained the Pope's licence to keep her rich dowry as Queen Dowager of England.

HENRY HOWARD.