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 &OTES BY THE WAY.

��1901, Feb. 2.

Albert the Good.

��ALBERT THE GOOD.

The obituary notice of the Prince Consort which appeared in The Athenaeum of the 21st of December, 1861, contains the follow- ing : " What the word Duty was to Arthur the Great, the word Progress was to Albert the Good." Is this the first instance in which this phrase, afterwards adopted by Tennyson in his dedica- tion of ' The Idylls of the King,' was used ?

No reply was received to my question.

��memorial.

��MEMORIAL TO JOHN RUSKIN.

1901, Feb. 16. ^ memorial to John Ruskin has been placet! in the church Ruskin of St. Paul, Herne Hill. It consists of a tablet of coloured marble, with inscription, surmounted by a medallion portrait in white marble by Mr. Brindley. The inscription is as follows :

" John Ruskin, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., born in Bloomsbury, Feb. 8, 1819. Brought to 28, Herne Hill by his parents in 1823. He dwelt in Herne and Denmark Hill for fifty years. His later days were chiefly lived upon the shore of Coniston Lake, yet under the roof where he grew up he had a home in this parish to the end, the house having passed into the possession of his cousin and adopted daughter Joan and her husband Arthur Severn. Died at Brantwood, Jan. 20, 1900. Buried at Coniston, Jan. 25, 1900. ' The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are the words of masters of assemblies.' "

��1901, Feb. 16.

Handel relic shown by Mr. J. S.

Shedlock.

��HANDEL RELIC.

A precious relic of Handel was shown by Mr. Shedlock on Saturday, February 9th, 1901, at the meeting of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. The relic is a book of harpsichord pieces, written by Handel's friend Johann Krieger, organist at Zittau for more than half a century, and published at Nuremberg in 1699. The copy was presented to Handel by the composer. It is one of the earliest examples of music printing extant, and was evidently greatly cherished by Handel. Mr. Shedlock traced its history, showing how it was given by the great composer as a rare gift to his friend Bernhard Granville, brother of Mrs. Delany, from whom it descended to Major Bevil Granville, who himself lent it to Mr. Shedlock. On the title-page it is described as " Anmuthige Chavili Terburg " ; and at the end of the preface, which is in the old German character, are the words " Zittau, 20th December, 1699. Christ year running to an end."

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