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always regretted the removal of an ol
entrance gateway with a porter's room
through which one passed into the forecpur
paved in geometric pattern with two kind;
of stone of differing tint. When the entrance
door and the garden door at the back stooc
open in summer time, it was pleasant tc
catch a glimpse suggesting the terracec
garden beyond the partly paved court at
the back. There was an interesting classic
summer - house built against the garden
boundary (the wall of the south cloister
walk), directly opposite the doorways of the
house an ideal place to sit in and I regret
that this feature was also removed.
The external accessories of this house, linking it so well with the past, seemed to me to give it an additional interest, but I suppose the paved forecourt must remain as it was. H. SIRE.
HUMAN EEMAINS FOUND ON ROOD-LOFT STAIRS AT MACHEN, MONMOUTHSHIRE. I quote from the Echo of 16 October, 1900 :
" During the renovation of the ancient church at Machen, near Newport, some plaster was removed from the west side of the building and two built- up doorways were disclosed. On pulling down the masonry, stairways leading to the rood-loft were discovered, and within the space two human skele- tons were found. The church records do not throw any light on the matter, except that for over 200 years nothing seems to have been known of the existence of the stairways."
Some further corroboration of this rather strange discovery would be useful.
W. B. GERISH. Bishop's Stortford.
MEMORIAL TO JOHN RUSKIN. A memorial to John Ruskin has been placed in the church of St. Paul, Herne Hill. It consists of a tablet of coloured marble, with inscription, sur- mounted 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 Conis- ton, Jan. 25, 1900. ' The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails well fastened are the words of masters of assemblies.' "
N. S. S.
HANDEL : A RELIC. A precious relic of Handel was shown by Mr. Shedlock last Saturday 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 pre-
sented 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 com-
poser 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." N. S. S.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. Now that a -eprint of the Book of Common Prayer has again become necessary, it would be inter- esting to know why Messrs. Eyre & Spottis- woode have in very recent years altered the punctuation of the Lord's Prayer. In all Ider issues the King's Printers and the Oxford and Cambridge Presses alike printed : Thy will be done in earth, As it is in leaven." For some reason or other the first named now print: "Thy will be done, in earth as it is in heaven." The initial capital, vhich in the Prayer Book marks a pause ind a fresh lead by the minister, is aban- doned m the word "as," while the point i placed after "done," instead of after earth. The result, when the minister i reading or singing from a five -year -old ervice book, while the choir and con- gregation
are provided with new books
resembles the confusion which is caused
when the clergy ignore (as nine-tenths of
them do) the same pauses marked by capitals
m the confession in the Communion Service
in the latter the capital initials do not all
- points, and it is hard to say for what
folio'
,i , . ' ^t^ v\j .y iui wua,
those who ignore them think they are there
A. T. M.
HEADS OR TAILSA legal correspondent of the Standard (28 Jan.), discoursing of the privileges of our queens consort, says :
metion
one other curious
Consort Tl ed in the Q ueen
as Rov 1 fi j 6 8tu yeon and the whale are known ad t , when th ?y are cast upon the they are both usually said to This is not strictly true
coast of
coast of England
belong to the Crown.
The stun
of the v
and his
Queen the tail.
- Kin S>but m t case
"divided between the King
kes the head and th * rs justify this division
