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asked a friend of mine now a member of Parliament who had a much more extensive acquaintance with Persia than I possessed, why Omar enjoyed so little popularity in that country, and his answer was, " Because he was a Sunni." The names of Omar and Osman, though common in Turkey and Arabia, are practically unknown in Persia, nor are the Persians a nation of tent- dwellers. In Arabic khaima means a tent, and Khaiyam or Khayyam is a tent-maker. His name and his religion combine to favour the idea that Omar was not of Persian, i.e. Aryan, but of Arab, i.e. Semitic, descent. I have worked out this theory in a short paper, of which some copies were privately printed by a friend of mine two or three years ago. I have still a few copies of this pam- phlet on my hands, and on my return to England shall be glad to send one to any psrson taking an interest in the subject who will favour me with a postcard ad- dressed as below. W. F. PBIDEAUX. Villa Paradis, Hyeres (Var).

FRITH'S ' ROAD TO RUIN ' AND ' RACE

FOB WEALTH' (US. v. 127). 'The Race

for Wealth ' series was exhibited at Chicago

in 1893 : it afterwards belonged to CoL J. J.

Ellis of London and M. N. Newton of London.

The pictures were in the sale of M. Sedel-


 * meyer of Paris in June, 1907 ; a letter to

I him would soon discover where they are

now.

At the end of MR. MAYCOCK'S query he states that ' The Railway Station ' is in the King's collection. If this is so, it must be one of the smaller replicas. The large picture was the property of my father, who sold it to the Holloway College, where it now is. ALGERNON GRAVES.

42, Old Bond Street, W.

The five pictures which form ' The Road to Ruin' belonged to the late Col. North, and hung at his residence, Avery Hill, Eltham, Kent, where I saw them, and where they were sold, 18 March, 1898, for 610 guineas, to a -Mr. Ingles. The auctioneers (Messrs. G. A. Wilkinson & Son, 7, Poultry, B.C.) might be inclined to give some further particulars as to the buyer. W. ROBERTS.

[MR FREDERIC TURNER also writes to say that Ine Railway Station ' is at Holloway College.]

ARCHIBALD ERSKINE (11 S. v. 128). This may have been Archibald Erskine, seventh Earl of Kellie, who was born 2 April. 1736, and died 8 May, 1797. He served for twenty-six years in the Army, becoming Lieutenant -"Colonel, and soon

afterwards retiring. It is thought that his Jaeobitism prevented his receiving further promotion. As a Scottish representative peer, he was indefatigable in his efforts to improve the political conditions of Episco- palians and Roman Catholics in Scotland. His work on behalf of the latter section of the community elicited the hearty recogni- tion of ecclesiastics from the Pope down wards. See Anderson's ' Scottish Nation,' ii. 595. THOMAS BAYNE.

LAMB OR LAMBE (11 S. v. 66, 137). That the Lambe of ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ' was the Hon. George Lambe is, I think, clear enough, and if I had read a few lines back I should have seen that for myself :

This Lambe must own, since his patrician name Fail'd to preserve the spurious farce from shame,

I think, however, that if MR. KINGSFORI> will refer to ' The Beauties of the Anti- Jacobin,' 1799, p. 306, he will have no doubt that " L be " refers to Charles Lamb, The conjunction of names alone proves it, and the editor's (? Gifford's) note accentuates it. Referring to " C dge," he finishes a very scathing review of his career as follows :

" He has s.nce married, had children, and has now quitted the country, become a citizen of the world, left his little ones fatherless, and his wife destitute. ' Ex uno disce ' his associates Southey and Lambe."

WM. H. PEET.

GARDINER FAMILY (11 S. v. 128). ! have the book - plate of " Samuel Weare Gardiner, Esq., Coombe Lodge, Whitchurch, co. Oxford." The blazon, which may be of interest to TRIN. COLL. CAMB., is : Quarterly, 1 and 4, Or, on a chevron gules, between three griffins' heads erased azure, two lions counter-passant of the -field ; 2 and 3, Gules, on a cross or five mullets in cross sable (this is the coat of Boddam) ; impaling : Sable, an eagle displayed (. . . . ?) within a bordure engrailed arg. Crest : A griffin's head erased (.... ?). Motto: "Deo nou fortuna." The blazon given by TRIN. Coix. CAMB. is not quite intelligible. Many coats of Gardener, Gardiner, and Gardner are given in Burke's ' General Armory,' to which reference might be made.

S. A. GRTJNDY-NEWMAN.

The will of my ancestor John Montfort was witnessed by Charles Gardner, whose seal is appended, viz., three griffins' heads erased, with an elephant's head for crest. An heraldic memorial to the family was recently placed in Bunbury Church. Cheshire,

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