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house of Exeter the following epitaph on a large marble slab, suspended high in the mortuary chapel, arrested my attention. It is printed in uncials, and I reproduce the arrangement in facsimile :

DOEOTHY CECIL UNMARRIED AS YET."

CANON THOMAS THELLUSSON CARTER.

1901, Nov. 9. The last of the Tractarians, the Rev. Canon Thomas Thellusson

Canon Carter, Carter, died on Monday, the 28th of October, 1901, aged ninety- the last of the three. He took his degree a term before Cardinal Manning, and Tractarians. a y ear before Gladstone and Archdeacon Denison. The Times in its obituary notice states that " throughout his various incum- bencies he threw himself into the Tractarian task of restoring the services and the teaching of the Church of England to that ' Catholic ' character which, according to the tenets of the school, she lost at the Reformation."

��10A1 THE PRINCE OP WALES.

1901, NOT. 16.

The title Prince of Wales, which has been in abeyance since the death of our beloved Queen Victoria, was renewed by the following notice in a " London Gazette Extraordinary " issued on Saturday morning the 9th of November, being the King's birthday :

"Whitehall, November 9, 1901. The King has been pleased to order letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal for creating His Royal Highness Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of Cornwall and York, Duke of Rothesay, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke of Saxony, Earl of Carrick and Inverness, Baron of Renfrew and Killarney, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, K.G., K.T., K.P., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.

The Prince was born on the 3rd of June, 1865, and married on the 6th of July, 1893, Princess Victoria Mary (" May ") of Teck.

Mr. Henry Frowde, of the Oxford University Press, and Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, Printers to His Majesty, on Monday, Novem- ber llth, issued advance copies of the " George, Prince of Wales, Prayer Book."

1901, Nov. 16. FIRST NEGRO TO DINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

First Negro President Roosevelt is the first President of the United States

! the wno nas invited a negro to dine at the White House. The honour lse ' has been accorded to Mr. Booker T. Washington. The Sphere, in giving his portrait on November 9th, states that

" he has done more to better the conditions of his race than any other living man. He is the head of the splendid educational institution for negroes, founded by himself, at Tuskegee, Alabama.'*

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