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Dean, sculptured by Sir J. E. Boehm, R.A.
He is represented clad in a surplice, with his
right hand placed upon his breast and his
left hand by his side. Along the frieze of
the tomb is inscribed :
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, second son of Edward Stanley, Bishop of Norwich. Dean of this Collegiate Church, 1861 to 1881. Born December 13, 1815. Died July 18, 1881. "1 know that all things come to an end, but Thy Commandments are exceeding broad."
The slab in the floor which covers the remains of the Dean and his Lady is in-
- -ribed to
Augusta Elizabeth Fredrica, 5th daughter of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, the beloved wife of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, 1 'ean of this Collegiate Church. For thirty years the devoted servant of Queen Victoria and the Queen's mother and children for twelve years the unwearied friend of the people of Westminster, ind the inseparable partner of her husband's toils and hopes, uniting many hearts from many lands and drawing all to things above. Born April 3, 1822, died March 1, 1876. Also the above Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, who died 18 July, 1881. ' We know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brethren."
DK. ARNOLD.
Rugby. Dr. Arnold was buried in the School Chapel. A grey marble cross in the pavement, inscribed with his name, marks lue site of his grave just in front of the lectern.
A monument to his memory has been placed in the north transept. It consists of a recumbent effigy executed in brown stone by J. Thomas. The figure lies within an erched recess in the north wall, and at the back is the following inscription, written by Arnold's old friend the Chevalier Bunsen :
Vir * Rev *
THOMAS ARNOLD, S.T.P. Hittoriae recent ' aevi ' tradendffi ' apud ' Oxonien '
pro ' Reg ' nujus * Scholae * per ' annos ' xiv antistes ' strenuus *
unice ' dilectus Thucydidem * illustravit ' Historiam * Romanam
scripsit
Populi ' Christiani libertatem " dignitatem ' vindicavit ' fldem con-
firmavit ' scriptis ' vita
Christum ' prsedicavit ' apud ' vos
Juvenum ' aninios " monumentum ' sibi ' deligens .
Tanti ' viri ' effigies " vobis ' hie * est ' proposita
Corpus ' sub * altari ' conquiescit Anima ' in " suam 'sedem * patre ' vocante ' immi-
gravit
fortis ' pia ' laeta &at " a ' d ' xiu Jun * MDCCXC ' Mort ' a ' d * xn *
Jun ' MDCCCXLJI Amici ' posuerunt.
In the chapel vestry are preserved the plain table and chair which Dr. Arnold used n the Sixth Form room. They bear the
following inscriptions written by Arch-
bishop Benson :
Haec Tabula
Thomae Arnold!
libros chartas manus
inter discipulos disserentis scribentis orantis, annos xiv. sustinebat.
In hac sella
Arnoldus
Litteras docebat
Sacras Scripturas aperiebat,
ad virtutis veritatisque amorem
Domini Jesu Christi imitationem
Voce Fronte Moribus
Suos excitebat.
Westminster. On 15 July, 1896, the late Dr. Bradley, Dean of Westminster, unveiled a bust of Dr. Arnold which had been placed in the Abbey by subscriptions from old friends and former pupils of the great school- master. It was sculptured by Mr. Alfred Gilbert, R.A., and erected in the Baptistry opposite that of his son, Matthew Arnold, and in close proximity to those of Words- worth, Maurice, Keble, and Kingsley.
JOHN T. PAGE.
( To be continued.)
" SPABBOWGBASS." (Cf. " Sparrowbills,"
US. viii. 449, 494; x. 157.) Dr. Wright's
' Dialect Dictionary ' says that this is a cor-
ruption of " asparagus." The ' N.E.D.' is
much more reserved, and rightly so, if com-
parative philology goes for anything.
Walker's ' Dictionary ' and Southey favour
the vulgar ; and so does the Turkish
koosh konmaz (literally, " what the sparrow
alights not on "), as well as the Arabic word
for sparrow, 'asfoor (ao-^apayos) . Skeat's
posthumous Glossary has " Sperage, ' the
herb asparagus, so called by Gerard and all
the old botanists ' (Nares)." He has also :
" Grasse Church, of the herb market there
kept," from Stowe's account of Gracechurch
Street.
In W. Somersetshire, in the same way, the wild geranium (Robertianum) is called " sparrow birds " ; and " sparrowgrass " is the only term for asparagus. The " stiff- ness and pedantry " of euphuism first called common " grass " or " sparrowgrass " in the seventeenth century by the name of " asparagus," which is wrong.
H. H. JOHNSON.
CLAN MACLEOD. When recently at Inch- nadamph, Sutherland, I inspected the ancient graveyard of Assynt Church. Apart from the usual miserably forlorn aspect of Northern graveyards, I found the old burial
