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as I did not write up to the character ; I have therefore, for want of a better name, simply callec it a ' Diary on the Continent ' ; and I mention this that I may not be accused of having intentionally deceived."

This Paris edition was prestxmably a reprin of the first English edition, which, according t o Allibone's ' Dictionary,' was published in 1840. ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

ELIZABETH (BUNDLE) CHARLES (12 S iii. 414). Readers of ' N. & Q.' may be interested to know that the inscription upon the tablet placed on the walls of Combe Edge, Oakhill Way, Hampstead, in memory of this gifted authoress, has, after more than a year's obliteration, been at last restored to visibility. But the lettering is still indis- tinct. This is regrettable, as the record i cherished by Mrs. Charles's many friends anc admirers, who raised a fund to defray the cost of the memorial. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

PRE-RAPHAELITE STAINED GLASS (12 S. iv. 217). Such examples as Miss JONE requires may be seen at

St. Martin's, Scarborough (D. G. Bossetti and

Madox Brown).

Christ Church, Albany Street (D. G. Bossetti). St. Giles's Church, Camberwell (Wm. Morris). St. Oswald's Church, Durham (Madox Brown). St. Michael's, Brighton (Morris). Coddington Church, Newark-on-Trent (Morris). New College, Oxford (Morris). Christ Church, Oxford (Morris). St. Philip's, Birmingham (E. Burne-Jones). St. John's, Torquay (do.). Morton Church, Gainsborough (do.). Jesus College, Cambridge (do.). All Saints' Church, Cambridge (do.). Christ Church, Oxford (do.). Peterhouse Combination Boom, Cambridge (do.). Parish Church, Bishopsbourne (do.). Salisbury Cathedral (Morris). Paisley Abbey (dp.). Edinburgh, SL Giles's (Burne-Jones). All of the above were executed by [William] Morris & Co. at their premises at Red Lion Square.

The following were designed by Burne- Jones and executed by William Morris :

Bye Parish Church (one).

Knaresborough Parish Church (one).

St. Margaret's, Nottingham (five).

St. Cybi, Holyhead (one).

Winchester Cathedral (four or five in one of the

North Choir chapels). Manchester College Chapel, Oxford (all the

windows).

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

There is a Morris east window in the beautiful church of Nun Monkton, near York. ST. SWITHIN.

" GONE WEST " (12 S. iv. 218, 280). The- expression is used by R. G. Jngersoll in his essay on ' Orthodoxy.' He writes :

" We are now having the same warfare between superstition arjd science as there was between the stage coach and the locomotive. But the stage coach had to go. It had its day of power and glory, but it is gone. It went west. In a little while it will be driven into the Pacific."

This seems to support the view taken by C. R. I. in his reply. A. H. G.

No one, I think, has called attention to an interesting quotation which suggests an explanation more probable, to my thinking, than those which deal with setting suns and so on. The association with these more picturesque ideas has, however, no doubt played a great part in popularizing the expression.

The quotation is from an old Scots poem of the (?) fourteenth century entitled trrn -"~ Warld is verra Vanite ' :

Mony pape are passit by, Kingis and knichtis in company

This :

Women and many wilsom wy [wights]

As wynd or wattir ar gane tcest. Here obviously it is " gone waste " verloren- gegangen. A. L. N. RUSSELL.

11 Marshall Place, Perth.

This phrase seems to mean " passed into silence," i.e., dead. Larousse ('Diction- naire,' art. ' Quest ') traces the term ("serait-ce par un pur hasard ....?") through A.-S. westen, a desert ; weste, west, desert (adj.); old German wosti, waste; Scand. vast, wcest, sea ; Latin vastus, vastum, vast, devastated, desert. " La racine de ces derniers mots parait se trouver dans le Sanscrit vas ou vast, tuer, dMu vasra, le mort." This would give the term a fine and solemn breadth of meaning much lacking in many verbal " returns from the Front." The Land of the Setting Sun recalls Fenimore hooper and his braves ; and cf. Tennyson ' May Queen '), Phe voice, that now is speaking, may be beyond

the sun.

GEORGE MARSHALL.

21 Parkfield Boad, Liverpool.

Compare Mary Coleridge's poem be- inning : We were young, we wera merry, we were very,

very wise.

And the door stood open at our feast, Vhen there passed by a woman with the west in,

her eyes And a man with his back to the east.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.