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of the house of Stuart, Or, a fess chequy, azure and argent ; No. 2 has the arms of the Province of Canterbury, Azure, an episcopal staff in pale or, and ensigned with a cross pate'e argent, surmounted by a pall of the last charged with four crosses formee-fitchee sable, edged and fringed or ; while on No. 3 will be found the arms of the See of London, Gules, two swords in saltire argent, pommels or. In the three lights are represented three saints : in the centre St. Barbara, and on either side SS. Dorothea and Perpetua, all holding the palm, typical of martyrdom, in their hands. The whole of the design is exquisitely beautiful, and exceedingly well carried out by the designers, Messrs. Clayton & Bell. The anonymity of the giver, so far as I know, has never been penetrated, but it is believed that the " American lady " thought herself to be a descendant of the unhappy princess ; but this I give with all reserve, and not as being a fact for which I can vouch.

Upon the lower or bricked-up portion of the next window has been placed a memorial in "opus sectile" work to the memory of Phillips Brooks, D.D., sometime Bishop of Massachusetts, who was well known and greatly respected in this country. The process used for this memorial has been happily described as the "revival of an ancient Roman process, differing in one re- spect from mosaic, inasmuch as the material used is opaque glass, cut to shape to resemble stained glass." The cost was mainly borne by English people, but some few American citizens, mainly resident here, assisted by their contributions. The bishop was a unique personality, and Dean Farrar, who knew him as well as, perhaps better than, most people on this side of the Atlantic, said that he was "of all modern ecclesiastics the most famous." Of him it has been justly written :

Great bishop, greater preacher, greatest man, Thy manhood far out-tower'dall church, all creed, And made thee servant of all human need,

Beyond one thought of blessing or of ban,

Save of thy Master, whose great lesson ran

" The great are they who serve." So now, indeed, All churches are one church in loving heed

Of thy great life wrought on thy Master s plan.

As we stand in the shadow of thy death How i>etty all the poor distinctions seem, That would fence off the human and divine !

Large was the utterance of thy living breath ; Large as God's love thy human hope and dream ; And now humanity's hushed love is thine !

Mrs. Sinclair, in her little 'History and Description of Windows of the Parish Church of the House of Commons,' thus describes the tribute placed thereon :

"Above is the text '' Comfort ye My people, saith your God ' ; below are the words ' Jesus said unto him, Feed My sheep.' In the centre panel our Lord is represented as the Good Shepherd, holding a crook. Dean Farrar considers ' the Good Shep- herd represents to us the joyful, cheerful side of Christianity, Luke xv. 1 to 7, John x. 1 to 18.' St. Peter is represented kneeling at his Master's feet : on the right two other apostles, St. John and St. Thomas, are depicted ; while on the left are sheep and a shepherd-boy. In the background is a small ship with sails. Underneath are the words 'In memory of Phillips Brooks, D.D., Bishop of Massachusetts, honoured and beloved, A.D. 1894'; and again below this has been placed a quatrain, in Latin elegiacs, written by the late Dr. Benson, formerly Archbishop of Canterbury, to the follow- ing effect :

Fervidus eloquio, sacra fortissimus arte, Suadendi gravibus vera Deumque Viris, Quaereris ad sedem populari voce regendam, Qusereris ad sedem rapte Domumque Dei. This touching tribute has been most happily eng- lished by the son of the writer : True priest of God, whose glowing utterance stayed The failing feet, the heart that was afraid, Pastor and Friend, beloved, most desired Thy people called thee, but thy God required."

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster.

BURTON'S 'ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.' (See ante, pp. 181, 222, 263, 322, 441.)

As regards quotations from Juvenal, it should be added that although on p. 396 of vol. i. Shilleto's note to " Crambe bis cocta " is "Juv. vii. 154, quoted memoriter," while on p. 436 he calls "crambem bis coctani apponere" "an adaptation of Juv. vii. 154," yet on p. 19 in his note on "cramben bis coctam apponere " he rightly refers to Erasmus's 'Adagia.' (The absence of any thorough system of cross-references is one of the serious faults in this edition.) Compare recoctam 1 " Erasmus, * Colloquia,' * Synodus Grammaticorum ' (p. 562 in the Variorum edition of 1729). Perhaps in "a Poet? esurit, an hungry Jack," vol. i. p. 322, 1. 12 (Part. I. sect. ii. mem. iii. subs, xi.), esurit may be regarded as a quotation from Juvenal vii. 87.
 * ' Quid, si apponeret cicutam aut cramben

On the latter line of the couplet which occurs near the end of the * Argument of the Frontispiece,'

For surely as thou dost by him, He will do the same again,

Shilleto comments, " Probably this line should be * He '11 do to thee the same again.' For it halts both in sense and rhythm." Unfortu- nately I possess no copy at present of the third edition, in which I understand that the engraved title * page first appeared ; but in the fourth these two lines occur in the same