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n s. VIIL JULYS, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES. (11 S. vii. 443).—I am sorry, when copying the inscription on the pedestal in front of Regency Square, Brighton, did not protest against the contraction of the word officers to "Offrs." I have from time to time called the attention of my friends to this, and one and all agree that such a contraction ought not to appear on a public monument, and that it is in very bad taste.

(11 S. vii. 447).—By a curious coincidence the same morning's mail brought me two papers, in one of which the latest number of ' N. & Q.' SIR J. A. H. MURRAY'S question about "town-planning" was asked, while the other, a German newspaper which I am sending to the Editor had an article about the right way to combine house and garden, with the heading, ' Hans and Garten- Planung.' This with the verb planen in an architectural sense ( = to design) was new to me, though " der Plan eines Hausep, einer Stadt," " Stadtplan," " Hausplan " are quite common. Probably this use has as yet remained confined to professional litera- ture. As the author refers to Prof. Muthe- sius as his master, and to Lichtwark, perhaps some brethren of the ' N. & Q.' community who are architects will be good enough to search in the works of the writers men- tioned. I have no doubt that the incom- parable storehouse of the B.M. Library contains them. G. KRUEGER

Berlin.

There is no use of the phrase " town- planning " in ' Garden Cities of To-Morrow,' by E. Howard, 1902, nor in Sennett's ' Garden Cities in Theory and Practice,' 1905. In a paper, R.I.B.A. Journal, 3 April, 1905, it is stated that

" the technical literature dealing with the matter -' The Planning of Cities ' is comparatively small, Mid, in so far as this country is concerned, may be said to be non-existent." In the same Journal, 11 May, 1907, is a note on the ' Proposed Legislation on Town Planning.' This is the earliest use of the expression as far as I know. The Trans- actions of the Town Planning Conference, October, 1910, Preface, give this explana- tion :

"As in the case with all conventional phrases, town-planning' has different meanings 111 different mouths. To the medical officer of health it means sanitation and healthy houses ; to the engineer, trams and bridges and straight roads,

with houses drilled to toe a line like soldiers.. To some it means open spaces, to the policeman, regulation of traffic ; to others a garden plot to every house, and so on. To the architect it- means all these things, collected, considered, and welded into a beautiful whole." and Unwin, 1912, p. 4, inform us that "'Town-planning' is now an accepted ex- pression." TOM JONES.
 * The Town-Planning Lectures,' Waterhouse-

MUNGO CAMPBELL'S DYING MESSAGE t " FAREWELL, VAIN WORLD ! " (11 S. vii. 449). The editorial note under this query states that the earliest definite example of the whole verse is 1776. Mr. Alfred Staple- ton's work, ' The Churchyard Scribe,' on p. 95, gives an example from Greasley Churchyard, twenty years before that date. He writes :

" In the same churchyard is to be seen the- worst travesty of an epitaph I have met with yet* founded on what are among the most hackneyed of all graveyard rhymes, which occur, in a com- paratively correct form, in the same churchyard, over William Harvey, 1756, thus :

Farewell vain World, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st Say of me ;. Thy Smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear, My days are past, my head liest quiet here. What faults you saw in me take Care to shun, Look but at home, enough is to, be done. " The travesty occurs on a headstone to Phillis Robinson, dated as recently as 1866, aad is exactly reproduced below. Its fearful and wonderful rendering possibly is due to the cir- cumstance that it was chiselled from memory by an'extremely illiterate man :

Farewell vain world I've had enough of the, I doent value what thou can see of me ; Thy frowns I quote not, thy smiles I fear not, Look at home and theirs enough to be done."

CHAS. A. BERNAU.

DICKENS: PLACES MENTIONED IN 'THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER' (11 S. vii. 249, 434). I cannot find an essay entitled 'The- Noble Savage ' in ' The Uncommercial Tra- veller,' although a paper under that title is entered in the general index to All the Year Round (vol. v. p. 424). But on turning up. the reference I fail to discover any mention, of St. George's Gallery. Will your corre- spondent give the reference to the volume and page of All the Year Bound where the article to which he alludes first appeared ? I think it very probable that St. George's Gallery was a name given to the building originally erected in 1842 to serve the pur- pose of a Chinese exhibition. According to- The Illustrated London News (6 Aug., 1842, p. 204), the building stood on " the left hand side of the inclined plane extending from Hyde Park Corner to Knight sbridge, and