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 370 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9'" s. iv. Nov. *, m Stranger, whoe'er you be, who may From China to Peru survey, Aghast, the waste of things unknown, Take heart of grace, you 're not alone ; And all (who will) 1) may rind their way In '"*' leir way 'N. &Q." Austin- Dobson. December, 1882. It is pleasant to record that there are in this number the signatures of many present con- tributors—Lady Russell, Prof. Skeat, W. T. Lynn, the Rev. John Pickford, Henry Sotheran, S. O. Addy, Prof. J. U. Butler, Julian Marshall, Col. Prideaux, and others. Mr. Turle survived Dr. Doran only five years and a.few months. He died very sud- denly on the evening of Thursday, the 28th of June, 1883, the first anniversary of his father's death. He had on the Wednesday visited the grave at Norwood, and placed some flowers in anticipation of his sisters' going there on the following day. The ' In Memoriam ' which appeared in Notes and Queries on the 7th of July included a few words signed A. J. M.:— "I ask leave to say a word, prompted only by private friendship and private sorrow, about the sad and sudden death of our genial Editor. His judgment and tact and temper in the conduct of ' N. & Q.' were singularly fine and accurate, and the loss of them is grievous to us all. But there are many, and I am one of them, who will feel even more deeply than this. They will feel, as I do now, that they have lost a friend; a man whose hearty cheerful kindness and personal regard were always at one's service and were always welcome. His memory will live with that of 'N. & Q.,' which is no light nor trivial touch of fame." Mr. Turle was the fourth surviving son of the well - known organist of Westminster Abbey, and was born on the 23rd of July, 1835. In September, 1841, the family went to live in the cloisters of the Abbey, and Turle was educated at Westminster School under Dr. Williamson in the first instance, and from 184C under Dr. Liddell. He had from his early boyhood a fondness for archaeo- logy, and particularly for church architecture ana antiquities. " Westminster Abbey," says live Athemxum in its obituary notice on the 7th of July, "endeared to him by associations of family, friends, and long residence, was the centre of his affections in the world of architecture." He very kindly gave the workers at The Athenicum Press evidence of this by procuring for them an invitation from Dean Stanley to go over the Abbey, when the Dean spent the best part of an afternoon in explaining the various portions of the building and'its monuments, and afterwards'eatertained them at tea in (he Jerusalem Chamber. During his short editorship of Notes and Queries Mr. Turle devoted all nis energies to its welfare. Nothing in connexion with his work was too much trouble for him ; he regarded the paper with an enthusiastic affection, and I am sure that he would have cordially approved the prediction of the critic in the Saturday Review that Notes and Queries was perhaps the only weekly newspaper that would be "consulted three hundred years hence." His kindly nature had endeared him to all, and great was the sorrow caused by his sudden loss. On the Sunday evening following his death the remains were re- moved to the Chapel of the Savoy, where they rested until the Tuesday, when, after a service by the Dean of Westminster, he was laid to rest with his father at Nor- wood, his friend Canon Prothero reading the last words at the grave. In the cloisters of Westminster Abbey a tablet has been placed to the memory of Mr. Turle's father,* and by special permission his own name has been included. Mr. Joseph Knight, who succeeded Mr. Turle, has now been our Editor for nineteen years. Both contributors and readers will heartily congratulate him on this our Jubilee day, and all will join in the desire that he may be spared to celebrate many future birthdays of 'N. & Q.' The welcome words of greeting with which he opens this number will find ready response. Saturday the 15th of August, 1885, was a day of deep mourning for Notes and Queries. The kind-hearted, genial scholar, its founder and first editor, was dead. The obituary notice, written by Mr. Knight, which appeared the following week, renders full tribute to his sound learning, his genial fancy and humour, as well as to his social gifts, which caused him to be a favourite in all companies, while his good nature and tact saved him from being mixed up in archasological feuds, and preserved to him throughout his life a • In Xoten anil Queries of November 28th, 1885, appears a review of ' Psalm and Hymn Tunes, composed by James Turle, formerly organist and master of the choristers of Westminster Abbey, collected and edited by his daughter S. A. Turle. Mr. Turle's compositions range over a long period— from 1824 to 1878. He was appointed organist to the Abbey in 1831, and so remained until Septem- ber 26th, 1875, when he still retained a titular con- nexion with the Abbey and lived in his house at the Cloisters until his death on June 28th, 1882. Dean Farrar has well said of him, " He breathed through all his life the music of a sympathetic kindness and of an invincible modesty, the music which ever seemed to be slumbering on the instru- ment of his gentle life."