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LONDON, SATVRDAl\ JULY I t% 1903.

CONTENTS.-No. 288.

NOTES : The United States and St. Margaret's, West- minster, 1 Notes on Burton's 'Anatomy,' 2 Epitaph on Queen Elizabeth, 3 President Loubet, 4 "To mug" "Out of rodex" Hammersmith Orange Blossoms, 5 " Bracelet " Hotel Lauzun, 6 Shakespeare's Books " Cabinet," 7.

QUERIES : Lushingtou Crabbe's MSS. Mottoes " Nightrail "r Marat in London, 7 Maclean Dumas on Cats and Dogs "That power that kindly spread the clouds " Quarterings Graham = Appelbey " Lime- ricks" or "Learicks"? 8 "Tory " English Grave at Ostend, 9.

REPLIES :" Unram," 9-Jews and Eternal Punishment, 10 Byron Quotation ' Passing By,' 12 Panton Family Keys to Thackeray's Novels Inns of Chancery "Temple Shakespeare "Tragedy at Heptonstall, 13 De Bathe Family Sheffield Family Author and Avenger of Evil Boadicea's Daughters Deputy-Mayor Grotto at Margate The Living Dead, 14 Reynolds Portrait Richard Nash " Policy of pin-pricks" Translation, 15 Clare Market, 16 Robert Scot Mrs. Samuel Pepys Byroniana R. T. Claridge, 18 River not flowing on the Sabbath Newspaper Cuttings changing Colour Lady Hester Stanhope Long Melford Church, Suffolk Car- dinals Ballads and Methodism Carson, 19.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' New Volumes of the Encyclopaedia^ Britannica' Escott's ' King Edward and his Court.'

Notices to Correspondents.

THE UNITED STATES AND ST. MAR- GARET'S, WESTMINSTER.

WHEN the time shall come (and it is rapidly approaching) for the records of the nineteenth century to be written, no inconsiderable space will have to be de- voted to the changed aspect of the rela- tionship between the United States and this country. The heritage of hate and the general bad feeling left at the close of the War of Independence have gradually year by year grown less until at the present time they are virtually non-existent. The victories of peace, which are no less renowned than those of war, have effected this ; peaceful arts have caused the two countries to understand one another, and the cousinship has now reached the confines of brotherhood. Legal luminaries from the States have come here and dwelt among us, and many of our judges have crossed the Atlantic, to meet only with the greatest kindliness and consideration ; men of science come to us bringing the learning of America to us, and we in return send ours to them. Our actors go to America at frequent intervals, and Sir Henry Irving and scores of others are as well known and quite as

much at home in America as William Gillette and other American actors are from Land's End to John o' Groat's. The artists of the States come here and stay with us ; and if ours do not go quite so much to America, I think their pictures do, and stay there, some- what to our loss. The daughters of the States, queens at home, come here, and as " our con- querors " reign arid remain queens in the old country. Our Churchmen go and visit the great Republic, notably Deans Stanley of Westminster, Hole of Rochester, and Farrar of Canterbury (when Archdeacon of West- minster, and rector of St. Margaret's) ; and in return there have been sent to us Bishops Whipple of Minnesota, Phillips Brooks of Massachusetts, x nd many more. Thus we may clearly see that peaceful efforts have brought about a state of things that would most likely never have been accomplished by wars and bloodshed.

St. Margaret's Church possesses most di- verse memories, but none are so completely happy as those found in the fact that it con- tains several memorials intimately associated with the United States, and to them it is now my pleasing privilege to direct attention. They are to be found in the windows erected by the pious forethought of lovers of the old country generally, and of this church par- ticularly, which has been a great feature of the religious life of London for many cen- turies. The first is a window over the door leading from the south aisle of the church into the vestry. The tracery is much older than that of any other window in the build- ing, and of more graceful design, and was filled in 1882, by an American lady, to the memory of that unfortunate princess the Lady Arabella Stuart, who lies in the closely adjacent Abbey. She was wife of Charles Lennox and cousin of James I., arid her body, as stated by Dean Stanley, was

"after her troubled life brought at midnight by the dark river from the Tower, and laid with no solemnity under the coffin of Mary Stuart her own coffin so frail that through its shattered frame the skull and bones were seen by the last visitors who penetrated into that crowded chamber."

This is accounted for by Keepe, who says that "to have had a great funeral for one dying out of the king's favour would have reflected on the king's honour." She was of the blood royal, being a descendant of Mar- garet, the elder daughter of Henry VII., by her second marriage with the Earl of Angus. Her life story is so well known that it is unnecessary to repeat it here. In the upper lights of her memorial window are four shields : Nos. 1 and 4 bear the quarterings