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 46 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9“ S- VI- JULY 2l» 1900- months after he had completed his midshipman’s time. I well remember on one,occasion when Pasco was unable for a long time to attend to his duties from a severe attack of rheumatism that Browne was selected to do his duties as flag-lieutenant, and that he occasionally at other times took 1’asco’s place, but Pasco was the” (underlined in original) ‘flag-lieutenant; he was actively attending to his duties just previous to the battle, and I was on the goop and quarter-deck whilst preparations for the ght were going on, and saw Lord N-- Capt. B ackwood, and some other captains of the trigates in earnest conversation toget er, and a slip of paper in the hand of the former(which Capt. Black- wood had looked at) yet I have no recollection that 1 ever saw it pass through other hands till it was given to Pasco, who, after referring to the telegraph signal book. took it back to his lordship, and it was then that, I believe, the substitution of words took place; but I think (though not sure) the sub- stitution was ‘expects’ for the word ‘requires,’ the latter word not beingain the telegraph book; and I think the word ‘ `n land’ h been pre- viously substituted for ‘l&lson’ for the same reason, at the suggestion of Capt-. Blackwood.” ”’ By underlining the word Capt. Karslake wished it to be understood that George Brow_ne was “acting ” flag-lieutenant, a Eosition which wou d not have entitled im to the “hauling down vacancy” pro- motion, which, by the ancient custom of the service, belonged by right to the ofiicer who had been appointed by the Admiralty as N elson’s flag-lieutenant. think that the word “confides ” (and not “ requires ") was the eliminated word which gave birth to the ever famous “expects” Riciman EDGCUMBE. [From First Series onwards references to the signal abound.] A Los'r PRINCIPLE or BEAUTY ns Anom- TBCTUBE. (See 9” S. iv. 489.)-I doubt whether any one of Mr. Julian Moore’s irregularities was ever lanned. The narrowing of West- minster Ahbey and widening in the clearstory was, of course, a defect ver common, as Sir Christopher Wren pointed' out, in Gothic cathedrals, and to be seen in almost all, Eng- lish or foreign, especially in Salisbury. Only those with enormous piers, as at Winchester and St. Albans, have avoided it. With regard to Greek temples, it is well known Vitruvius directed the basements on which columns stood to be higher in the middle, and the fact is that the Parthenon has not a sin le straight line about it, except the slopes of the pediment. These are commonly straight everywhere, and the convexity Mr. Moore describes in those of the Mansion House, London, I cannot detect, and one can view them perfect] each way. The western steps to St. Paul’s have been lately carefully made to imitate Grecian ones, but with no advan- tage, I think, in beauty. They may enable a carriage way to cross, and the ueen to land at once, about two feet lower t an the door, which can be done at St. Peter’s and most metropolitan cathedrals. E. L. GARBETT. MURAL 1Nsoa1P'r1oNs.-The following lines, discovered on some encaustic tiles on a build- ing in Great Malvern, Think, man, thy life May not ever endure ; That thou do’st thyself Of that thou art sure; But that thou keepest Unto thy executor’s care, If ever it avail thee It is but chance, _ remind me of a rare Hebrew guatrain I read years 'algo in the writings Q Abraham Mappo, a b ° liant Hebrew novelist, which I turn thus :- His bags of gold the miser weighs, Yet never notes his fleeting days; His squandered years return no more, While chance may steal his hidden store. Possibly there are mang similar mural epi- grams extant which rea ers of ‘ N.  Q3 may be pleased to submit for our delight and instruction. M. L. R. BRESLAR. “TRANsLA'r0R.”-This word, meaning a mender of boots, has revived, or perhaps has never died. Last month Judge Bacon at Whitechapel asked a man, “ What are you? ° He replied, “A translator.” Judge Bacon: “Of langua es?" “ No, boots. I make old boots new all the week, and sell on a barrow in Petticoat Lane on Sunday.” Bailey (1736 A.D.) ex lains “ translator’ as “a new vam er of old) shoes, &c.” I remember the word) with this meaning occurring in the old Radnor Church Parish Registers. M.A.OxoN. [See 8‘*‘ S. iii. 25, ll5.] MAJOR ANnaE’s HoUsE xr BATH.jA memorial tablet bearing the inscription “ Here lived Major André, A.D. 1770,” has been placed on No. 22, The Circus, Bath, which was the English home of the brave young Major André, who was shot gy order o Washington in the American ar of In- dependence, and whose remains were after- wards interred in Westminster Abbey. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. ACROGRAPHY.-I have just bought an edi- tion of the Spectator with illustrations acrogra hy by L. Schonberg. The edition 18 undated? but was probably issued during the earlier half of the present century. As a specimen of the system of illustrating, I should say that this hook is a distinct success; and a list of books so illustrated, with particulars of the inventor and principal exponents, 1 l L