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the words " God is love." On the base is

the following inscription :

Charles Kingsley

January 23, 1875

Amavimus, Amamus, Amabimus.

On the wall of the baptistery in the church is a brass plate containing the following words :

In piam memoriam Caroli Kingsley

S. Petri Westmonasteriensis Canonici

Hvivsce Ecclesia? per xxxi Annos

Rectoris dilectissimi.

London. In the baptistery, Westminster Abbey, is a bust of Kingsley by Thomas Woolner, K.A. It is inscribed :

Charles Kingsley Canon of Westminster

" God is love "

" Quit you like men ; be strong." Born June '12, 1819. Died Jan. 23, 1875.

Buried at Eversley, Jan. 28, 1875. I desire to thank MB. J. ABDAGH and MB. W. T. HAYLEB for much valued help, and MR. WM. MACABTHUB for Manx notes and many other kindnesses.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

(To be continued.}

SIB HUMPHBEY GILBEBT'S LAST WOBDS. (See 10 S. xi. 447 ; xii. 391.) Jeremy Collier (' Eccl. Hist.,' ed. 1852, iv. 241) gives Friar Elston's words in a slightly different form, viz. :

" The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land."

Diogenes Laertius (iv. 7, 3, 49) quotes a saying of Bion of Borysthenes evKoAov e^acTKC TYJV ei? a.8ov 6Sov Kara/xvovra? yovv oLTTitvai without noticing that it is taken from an epigram of Leonidas of Tarentum, preserved for us by Stobseus (Jacobs's Appendix to the ' Greek Anthology,' No. 48) :

cpTrcov ov yap eo-rt 6\', in good heart, to Hades at slow pace ; The clear way winds not, nor is hard to trace ; X.iy, 'tis all straight, and sloping downward lies, And, e'en at midnight, travell'd with shut eyes.

This is not good. " At slow pace " and " e'en at midnight " are not in the Greek, and tend to spoil the sense. Far better,

though too diffuse, is the version by Charles Merivale in ' Collections from the Greek Anthology,'- by J. H. Merivale, F.S.A, (London, 1833), p. 137 :

With courage seek the kingdom of the dead ; The path before you lies :

It is not hard to find, nor tread ;

Xo rocks to climb, no lanes to thread.

But broad, and straight, and even still,

And ever gently slopes downhill : You cannot miss it, though you shut your eyes. At p. 324 Merivale gives the Greek, with ouSevos TrAecos for ovS' dvaTrAetos, and 8rj for 6" ?J, and adds a Latin version by Grotius :

Ad inferorum regna deducens iter Securus intra ; quippe non concredibus, Non tortuosis impedita anfractibus, Sed tota recta, tota declivis via est, Et inveniri prona vel ca3co gradu.

Perhaps I may be allowed to subjoin my own rendering :

With courage fare upon thy death ward way, Easy and smooth ; and know thou wilt not stray : For 'tis quite straight, and all downhill it lies : Thou canst not miss it, though thou shut thine eyes.

JOHN B. WAINE WEIGHT.

LITTLE GIDDING NUNNEBY : PAMPHLET. A scarce little volume in my possession, with the following title-page :

" The | Arminian | Nvnnery : | or, | A Brief e

description | and Relation of the late erected Mo-


 * nasticall Place, called the Arminian | Nvnnery

at little Gidding in | Hvntington-Shire.

Humbly recommended to the wise consideration \ of

this present Parliament.

The Foundation is by a Company of Farrars I at Giddding. [Woodcut. 1

Printed for Thomas Underbill MDCXLI ; has a curious misprint, Gidding being spelt " Giddding," as shown above, and this error is repeated on p. 1. It has not been noticed before. Although of little import- ance, it may be worth recording as a curiosity or printer's error. So much interest is taken now in careful and exact bibliographies that whenever anything sin- gular is observed in a volume, a note should be made.

The pamphlet was scarce before Hearne's time, and he reprinted it in Peter Langtoft's ' Chronicle,' 1725. In Bagster's edition of the same work (1810) the title-page is to face p. cxxiv, vol. iii., being vol. i. of Peter Langtoft's * Chronicle,' " Num. X. A copy of the printed Pamphlet about the reputed nunnery at Little - Gidding in Huntington- shire ; " but the word Gidding is spelt with only two eTs, showing it to be not a careful copy.