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Street. There is also a bust in Westminster Abbey (Bacon, jun.) : " This memorial was erected by his beloved wife and discon- solate widow M. A. Hastings."

A bronze tablet outside his residence, 40, Park Lane, Hyde Park, was affixed by the Duke of Westminster.

WlLMOT COBFIELD.

( To be continued.)

THE ROYAL STANDARD AND ST. MARTIN'S- IN-THE-FIELDS. When MR. FAIRBROTHER'S note on a ' Petition for a Church Flag ' appeared (11 S. v. 487), I thought it of interest to ascertain whether St. Martin' s- in-the-Fields being a Royal Parish, and Royal births taking place at Buckingham Palace being registered in its books still retained the exceptional privilege of flying the Royal Standard from the steeple of the church. I wrote to the Vicar, the Rev. Prebendary Leonard E. Shelf ord, and he most courteously answered as follows :

" In reply to your letter respecting the flying of the Royal Standard on the steeple of St. Martin's Church, I beg to say that there was a time when this appears to have been allowed. In 1726 application was made to the Navy Board, now the Admiralty, for a Boyal flag to be ex- hibited on the church tower, which petition was granted and the flag supplied. But when a similar permission was applied for in more recent times, it was refused.

" In 1906," continues Mr. Shelford, " I raised the Standard under the impression that the old custom was still permissible. A protest was at once raised against my doing so, which had, as I understand, the support of the Garter King-at- Arms."

Mr. Shelford thought, during the time of the Coronation, of trying to restore the old practice, but was assured that it would be useless, " as my predecessor had attempted it in his time, and been definitely prevented from doing so." EDITOR.

MORRIS DANCERS. Sir Wm. Temple, in his ' Miscellanea,' part iii., 'Of Health and Long Life,' tells the following story, which he had from "the late Robert, Earl of Leicester " :

"Of a Morrice-dancer in Herefordshire ; whereof he said he had a Pamphlet still in his Library, written by a very ingenious Gentleman of that County ; And which gave an Account, how such a year of King James's reign, there were about the Country a Sett of Morrice Dancers, com- posed of ten men who danced, a Maid Marian, and a Tabor and Pipe ; and how these Twelve one with another made up Twelve hundred years. 'Tis not so much, that so many in one small county should live to that Age, as that they should be in V T igour and in Humour to travel and to dance."

Would it not be worth while, in this day of acute interest in morris and other dan- cing, and in historical or legendary longevity, to trace this pamphlet in the British Museum or through ' N. & Q.' ?

A. FORBES SIEVEKING.

12, Seymour Street, W.

[By 1746 the reputation of the troupe had some- what decreased, for it was then reported to have consisted of ten persons whose ages made up a thousand years. See 8 S. x. 513.]

A GOETHE QUOTATION IN CARLYI/E AND RUSKIN. In the ninth chapter of ' Praeterita,' 192, Ruskin writes :

" In the beginning of the Carlyle-Emerson correspondence, edited with too little comment by my dear friend Charles Norton, I find at page 18 this to me entirely disputable, and to my thought, so far as undisputed, much blameable and pitiable, exclamation of rny master's : ' Not till we can think that here and there one is thinking of us, one is loving us, does this waste earth become a peopled garden.' " Ruskin's " master " is, of course, Carlyle ; the letter is dated 12 Aug., 1834, but the words of the " exclamation " are not Carlyle's own. It looks as though Ruskin failed to notice that Carlyle places the sentence in inverted commas j and yet the word " undisputed," if it means " undisputed by Carlyle," would show that Ruskin did know the dictum was borrowed. The reader of the ordinary edition of ' Praeterita ' most likely sup- poses that an opinion of Carlyle's is quoted and criticized by Ruskin. The editors of the magnificent Library Edition of Ruskin's works therefore point out that the remark, is not an original one, and they suggest that Carlyle was quoting Emerson himself. That, however, is not the case. The quotation is from Goethe's ' Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre,' book vii. chap. v. :

" Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge Fliisse und Stadte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns iibereinstimmt, rnit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten."

So the passage is printed in the six-volume selection of Goethe's works published for the Goethe Gesellschaft by the Insel- Verlag, Leipzig, 1910 ; but I have seen it in a birthday book with variants (" wenn wir nur Stadte, Berge und Fliisse in ihr denken ; aber hie rind da Jemand .... das Erdenrund zu einem.... ") which bring it nearer to the version in Carlyle's translation of ' Wilhelm Meister ' (1824) :

" The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it ; but