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��Berceuse, a Nocturne, and three waltzes. One of these latter is the first composition of the kind by the famous Polish musician ; another is a piece dedicated to Mile. Charlotte de Rothschild, with the inscription Hommage, Paris, 1842. J. Chopin ' ; and finally the famous Waltz in D fiat."

It is gratifying to know that the Russian Government has sanctioned the erection of a monument to Chopin at Warsaw.

��CHRIST CHURCH, WOBURN SQUARE. 1901, NOV. 2.

The theft of the cross from this church, so full of associations ChristChurch,

��with Christina Rossetti, is a cause for universal regret. It was given by her aunt Eliza Polidori, and consisted of a ruby enamelled globe banded with emeralds set in massive gold, and included a star and crescent of diamonds, the gift of the Sultan of Turkey, in recognition of Miss Polidori's services as one of the nurses in the campaign in the Crimea. The cross occupied a position in front of the reredos filled with paintings by Sir Edward Burne-Jones as a memorial to Christina Rossetti.

It was to this church that Christina Rossetti's remains were brought on Wednesday, the 2nd of January, 1895, previous to their interment at the cemetery at Highgate. At the service her hymns were sung, as also again on All Saints' Day, 1898, when the memorial was dedicated. Listening to the words,

" Watchman, what of the night ? " but still

His answer sounds the same : " No daybreak tops the utmost hill, Nor pale our lamps of flame,"

one thought sadly of the hours of patient suffering she passed through, many a night longing for the dawn, and rejoiced in the thought that her " waysore feet " were now at rest with the friends who had watched her, who had touched the goal and urged her to " come up higher."

There no more parting, no more pain,

The distant ones brought near, The lost so long are found again,

Long lost but longer dear : Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard,

Nor heart conceived that rest, With them our good things long deferred, With Jesus Christ our Best.

��Woburn

Square, and

Christina

Rossetti.

��CURIOUS EPITAPH.

The following appeared in The Times of the 25th of October, 1901 :

" C. W. writes : While lately strolling through an old Surrey church containing altar - tombs, escutcheons, and memorials of the

��1901, Nov. 2.

Curious epitaph.

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