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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JAN. 13, 1917.

Although St. Dominic was a Spaniard, the origin of the Order was in France, and the friars' Mass retains many of the peculiarities of the Southern French ceremonial. In low mass the gifts are prepared beforehand, the priest ascending the altar, laying out the corporal, blessing the water, mixing the chalice, and then covering all with the pall and veil. He opens the Missal, and puts back the amice with which his head has been clothed :

" ambabus manibus caput discooperiafc, et capu- tium decenter aptando, secreto ac humiliter orans dicat : Actiones nostras,* quaesumus Domine, aspirando praeueni et adiuuando prose - quere. ..."

He immediately descends to begin Mass. The shortened Conftteor is used, and he does not beat his breast at mea culpa. On ascending to the altar the Relic prayer is omitted. At the Offertory he recites the words which appear in the Latin rite at the Communion: "Quid retribuam . . . . Calicem salutaris." At the Communion the arrange- ment is : ' Pax Domini,' ' Agnus Dei,' ' Haec sacrosancta commixtio.' He kisses the chalice, and gives the Pax to the assistant, "tenenti pallam, uelimaginempacis." Again the breast is not struck at the ' Agnus Dei.' In common with the Carthusians, Carmelites, and the Sarum use, the hands are out- stretched at the ' Communicantes ' and at the 'Anamnesis' ("Unde etmemores"). At High Mass, moreover, there are several particular ceremonies which occur in the Limoges Missal.

'The Dominican Tertiary's Daily Manual ' (Kegan Paul), edited by the late Fr. Procter, gives the Dominican 'Little Office of Our Lady,' together with many commemorations of Saints and Blessed of the Order. Compline, which is often sung at Haverstock Hill, may be found in the Rev. F. F. Purcell's ' Dominican Compline Book ' (Browne & Nolan). ' The Rosary and Dominican Calendar,' published each year by Mr. S. Walker of Hinckley,is an admirable guide for the layman. Those who wish to enter more fully into details of Dominican life and thought should directly study the ' Book of the Constitutions,' with its exegesis, Marehese's ' Diario Domenicano,' Cardinal Cajetan's commentary on the ' Summa,' and the works of the principal Dominican philosophers, theologians, canonists, and historians.

Very inadequately I have now mentioned a few ot the many reliable and simpler

. * " Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings."

volumes dealing with the Order. If any further information, historical, liturgical^ mystical, or biographical, is required, I shall be happy to supply all such details as lie in my power to give.

MONTAGUE SUMMERS, F.R.S.L.

C. F. Palmer's ' Life of Cardinal Howard '' (London, 1867) gives a special account of the English Dominican Province.

Dora Greenwell's book on ' Lacordaire ' (Edinburgh, Edmonstone & Douglas, 1867) contains a considerable amount of informa- tion on the foundation of the Third Teaching Order of St. Dominic. Pere Lacordaire founded this order in France about 1850,. where it is now regarded as a special province of the Dominican Order. He also founded a number of colleges in France, but these^ have ceased to be directed by Dominicans since the persecution in 1903.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

THOMAS GRAY (12 S. ii. 285, 397,'526). MB. McGovERN is quite mistaken in thinking that there are no memorials of Gray at Cambridge. There is a good bust of him in. the Hall at Pembroke, and certainly two portraits, one as a young man and one painted later in life, in the Common Room, besides a. silhouette of him in the Master's Lodge. The Master also has in his keeping Gray's- commonplace book in three MS. volumes,, which contain the ' Elegy ' and other poems in his handwriting. These were bequeathed to the College by his friend Stonehewer^ There are also various MSS. and some of his note-books in which he recorded his meteoro- logical and nature" observations, in the- College Library. May I, as an old Pembroke- man, assure your correspondent that Gray is far from being forgotten at Pembroke, and that every tradition about him is carefully preserved ? His rooms, too, which a few years later were occupied by the younger Pitt, are well known, and were those on the- first floor in the south-west corner of the Inner or Ivy Court. In the Fitzwilliam Museum there is an interesting portrait of him as a small boy, while on the outside of the window of his rooms at Peterhouse can still be seen the iron framework to which he- attached his fire-escape. It is well known that the false alarm carefully engineered by the ixndergraduates of Peterhouse, which caused him hurriedly to descend his escape- into a bath placed at the bottom, was the? cause of his removing to Pembroke.

LAWRENCE E. TANNER. Savile Club, W.