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 * igs of A, his great-grandfather, recorded a

i le College of Arms. He will then, on proving .- legitimate descent from A, have the sai( i rmorial bearings confirmed and recorded t( 1 im ; but he must be in a position to prov t lat the arms are really those of A, for the ( ollege of Arms, I presume, would not be s itisfied with merely a sketch or seal from a t iree-and-sixpenny "send name and county heraldic shop. A. Z.

[See also ante, p. 361.]

CHAL": "ROMANY CHAL" (9 th S. iii. 108) Avould strongly recommend S. J. A. F. to read Borrow's 'Lavengro,' 'Romany Rye, and ' Romano-La vo-Lil,' if he is interested in gipsy-lore. In chap. Ixx. of 'Lavengro' he will find this gillie :

The Rom many chi

And the Rommany chal

Shall jaw tasaulor

To drab the bawlor,

And dock the gry

Of the farming rye.

In the following chapter this is translated The Romany churl And the Romany girl To-morrow shall hie To poison the sty, And bewitch on the mead The farmer's steed.

JAMES HOOPER.

Chal, a lad, boy, son, fellow. Connected with this word are the Scottish chiel, the Old English childe, and the Russian chelovik. Romano or Romany chal, a gipsy fellow, a gipsy lad. Romany chi, gipsy lass, female gipsy. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

In the English gipsy dialect Romany chal means gipsy lad. Borrow identifies chal with the Scottish chiel and Old English childe. The feminine is chi or chei (chee), and Romany chi is gipsy girl. There seems to be another feminine form chel, which occurs in the gipsy ballad * Lelling Cappi ' (' Making a Fortune '), of which the first line is

Av, my little Runini chel,

Come, my little Romany girl.

C. S. JERRAM.

BARRY O'MEARA(9 th S. iii. 261). There are a number of letters from Edward Murphy in the Charlemont correspondence preserved in the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, which show him to have been a man of simple tastes and cultured mind. One can well understand on reading them that he was

dear to his friends." I should be glad to enow if SIGMA TAU is certain that Murphy is styled "Rev." on the tombstone. If he was

in orders he took particular care to conceal the fact. He is styled "Esquire" in the announcement of his death, in a letter in the Charlemont correspondence, and in a return made by the curate of Monkstown to Dublin, where Murphy lived. He makes in his will no reference to his being in orders, and his only means seem to have been a pension allowed him by Lord Charlemont.

F. ELRINGTON BALL.

Dundrum, co. Dublin.

A RELIC OF NAPOLEON (9 th S. iii. 3, 75, 175, 254). There appear to be two claimants in the field for credit due to them as the actual takers of a plaster cast of Napoleon's face after death, viz., Doctors Antommarchi and Burton. If, as the story goes, the former did surreptitiously abstract the latter's maiden effort, it would only have meant a matter of quite a short time (two hours at most) for Dr. Burton to have made a duplicate. When I visited the isle of St. Helena last summer, my attention and interest were naturally and particularly directed to the existing very fine marble bust (a replica of one in Paris, I be- lieve) now at old Longwood House. But although, in conversation upon the actual spot relative to the great general's last hours, no mention of any cast occurred, it does not, of course, follow that none was taken. The lithographic drawing of Napoleon's face after death by Pistrucci, mentioned by R. A. C., "s not the only existing example of the same sort. Through the kindness of Mr. Andrew [redale, of Torquay, I have become the lappy possessor of a lithograph of a crayon drawing, a life-sized representation of the The printed inscription thereupon reads :
 * ace seen in profile of Napoleon after death.

''Napoleon the First at St. Helena. From the iriginal painting, taken immediately after death by Japtain Ibbetson, R.E., now in the possession of the ilev. J. P. Pitcairn, M.A., Rector of Longsight. Copied from the original by John Gibbs. Day & Son, .jitho 9 to the Queen, Manchester and Paris. Pub- ished by John Gibbs, Sep r 6, 1855."

Being in Paris the other day, and in the mmediate neighbourhood of the Invalides, I ,ook temporary refuge within its church from a sharp snowstorm. Beneath the centre of he dome repose Napoleon's remains. As I ooked down (it is said the architect designed he position and approach to the tomb so hat all who gazed thereon must, of necessity, >ow) and admired the superb sarcophagus in vhich the body reposes the finest thing of he sort, ancient or modern, I know in the vorld my thoughts recurred to that lonely rid lovely glen in the far-away isle of St. lelena. It was there, in a spot chosen by