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development. From 1844 to 1865 he was pastor of the Congregational Church, Plaistow, Essex. In 1862 he founded the Tonic Sol-Fa College, and in 1865 established the Tonic Sol-Fa Press at Plaistow.

John Curvven died at Upton, Essex, May 26, 1880, and was buried in the City of London Cemetery-, Ilford. His grave may be found by proceeding through the main entrance directly to the chapel, and then taking the path which bears to the right it is soon observed in a secluded nook on the left, near the eastern boundary of the cemetery. An obelisk of polished red granite about fourteen feet high makes an imposing monument, its beauty being greatly en- hanced by a background of trees and shrubs. It is thus inscribed :

In affectionate remembrance of

John Curwen,

Born November 14, 1816, Died May 26, 1880,

who developed and promoted

The Tonic Sol-Fa Method

of teaching music.

" Let the people praise Thee, O God, let all the people praise Thee."

And of his loving wife

Mary Curwen,

Born March 24, 1820, Died Jan. 17, 1880. " They were lovely and pleasant in their livesi and in their death they were not divided." This stone is erected by their children.

Mr. John Spencer Curwen, who succeeded his father as President of the Tonic Sol-Fa Association, died, aged 69, at 6 Portland Place, W., on Aug. 6 last. He was born at Plaistow, Sept. 30, 1847. Mr. J. S. Curwen was for some vears an occasional contributor to 'N. & Q/ (See 10 S. xii. 313, sub v. ' Wm. Gush.') JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

A PRIZE AT TBINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, IN 1789. At the beginning of a copy of " C. Cornelii Taciti Opera .... Glasguae : 1753," there is a printed form worded as follows :

" Ingenup magnseque spei AUOLESCENTI Arthur Perry Sociorum Commensali Procter insignes in ARTIBCS progressus in CLASSE tertid Premium hoc literarium dederunt PR.*;POSITUS et Socii Seniores Collegii sacrosanctse & individuae Trinitatis juxta DUBLIN Examinatione habita init.io Termini Paxchm A.D. 1189. Quod tester J. Waller Profr Prio."

I have put in italic the words inserted by the pen. At the top of this testimonial there is the seal of the said " Coll. sancta; in- dividuae Trinitatis Reg. Elizab. juxta Dublin," The seal is also stamped upon the binding on both sides.

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

EARL'S COURT, A LONDON SUBURB. " Earle's Court in Middlesex " is carefully described in an advertisement in The Daily Courant for July 5, 1712, as " situated be- twixt Kensington and Little Chelsea, and 3 Miles from London, in a very good Air." The latter fact seems to have been vouched for by the fact that included in some property to be sold there are " an Orangeree and above 100 Orange-Trees in Tubs."

Something like forty years later it was still felt necessary carefully to define the location, for in an advertisement of " Hull's Academy " in The General Advertiser of Feb. 3, 1749/50, it was described as

" At the Great House, in Earl's Court, situated between Knightsbridge, Kensington, Hammer- smith and Chelsea."

The proprietor, it may be noted, was a worthy predecessor of Mr. Wackford Squeers in the art of alluringly advertising a boarding school. His floridity of style even exceeded that of his later rival, while his cheapness could not be gainsaid, for, declaring himself satisfied with moderate profits for his offered advantages, he announced his

" resolve henceforth to take Young Gentlemen at Ten Guineas a Year for Boarding and Instruct- ing them in all Particulars."

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

SUBSTITUTES FOR PILGRIMAGE. I remem- ber having seen it suggested, in some work which I have now forgotten, that a visit to the Stations of the Cross particularly the early reproductions of the Via Dolorosa at Jeru- salem set up at Louvain, Nuremberg, and other Continental cities was allowed as a substitute for the greater pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Indeed, if I rightly recollect, the writer stated that the Stations of the Cross were introduced into Europe for that express purpose.

Further, it was said that the following-out of the mazes or labyrinths, examples of which are yet to be found in some Continental churches, constructed in parti - coloured marbles on some portion of the floor of the church, and called in France Chemins de Jerusalem, was also reckoned as a simple substitute for a longer pilgrimage. I should be much indebted to any one who can confirm this, and supply me with further information on the subject. COLET.