n s. VIIL JULYS, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Statues and Memorials in the British Isles: "Offrs." (11 S. vii. 443).—I am sorry Mr. Page, when copying the inscription on the pedestal in front of Regency Square, Brighton, did not protest against the contraction of the word officers to "Offrs." I have from time to time called the attention of my friends to this, and one and all agree that such a contraction ought not to appear on a public monument, and that it is in very bad taste.
Inner Temple.
"Town-planning" (11 S. vii. 447).—By a
curious coincidence the same morning's
mail brought me two papers, in one of
which the latest number of ' N. & Q.'
SIR J. A. H. MURRAY'S question about
"town-planning" was asked, while the
other, a German newspaper which I am
sending to the Editor had an article about
the right way to combine house and garden,
with the heading, ' Hans and Garten-
Planung.' This with the verb planen in
an architectural sense ( = to design) was
new to me, though " der Plan eines Hausep,
einer Stadt," " Stadtplan," " Hausplan " are
quite common. Probably this use has as
yet remained confined to professional litera-
ture. As the author refers to Prof. Muthe-
sius as his master, and to Lichtwark, perhaps
some brethren of the ' N. & Q.' community
who are architects will be good enough to
search in the works of the writers men-
tioned. I have no doubt that the incom-
parable storehouse of the B.M. Library
contains them. G. KRUEGER
Berlin.
There is no use of the phrase " town- planning " in ' Garden Cities of To-Morrow,' by E. Howard, 1902, nor in Sennett's ' Garden Cities in Theory and Practice,' 1905. In a paper, R.I.B.A. Journal, 3 April, 1905, it is stated that
" the technical literature dealing with the matter -' The Planning of Cities ' is comparatively small, Mid, in so far as this country is concerned, may be said to be non-existent." In the same Journal, 11 May, 1907, is a note on the ' Proposed Legislation on Town Planning.' This is the earliest use of the expression as far as I know. The Trans- actions of the Town Planning Conference, October, 1910, Preface, give this explana- tion :
"As in the case with all conventional phrases, town-planning' has different meanings 111 different mouths. To the medical officer of health it means sanitation and healthy houses ; to the engineer, trams and bridges and straight roads,
with houses drilled to toe a line like soldiers..
To some it means open spaces, to the policeman,
regulation of traffic ; to others a garden plot to
every house, and so on. To the architect it-
means all these things, collected, considered, and
welded into a beautiful whole."
- The Town-Planning Lectures,' Waterhouse-
and Unwin, 1912, p. 4, inform us that "'Town-planning' is now an accepted ex- pression." TOM JONES.
MUNGO CAMPBELL'S DYING MESSAGE t " FAREWELL, VAIN WORLD ! " (11 S. vii. 449). The editorial note under this query states that the earliest definite example of the whole verse is 1776. Mr. Alfred Staple- ton's work, ' The Churchyard Scribe,' on p. 95, gives an example from Greasley Churchyard, twenty years before that date. He writes :
" In the same churchyard is to be seen the- worst travesty of an epitaph I have met with yet* founded on what are among the most hackneyed of all graveyard rhymes, which occur, in a com- paratively correct form, in the same churchyard, over William Harvey, 1756, thus :
Farewell vain World, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st Say of me ;. Thy Smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear, My days are past, my head liest quiet here. What faults you saw in me take Care to shun, Look but at home, enough is to, be done. " The travesty occurs on a headstone to Phillis Robinson, dated as recently as 1866, aad is exactly reproduced below. Its fearful and wonderful rendering possibly is due to the cir- cumstance that it was chiselled from memory by an'extremely illiterate man :
Farewell vain world I've had enough of the, I doent value what thou can see of me ; Thy frowns I quote not, thy smiles I fear not, Look at home and theirs enough to be done."
CHAS. A. BERNAU.
DICKENS: PLACES MENTIONED IN 'THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER' (11 S. vii. 249, 434). I cannot find an essay entitled 'The- Noble Savage ' in ' The Uncommercial Tra- veller,' although a paper under that title is entered in the general index to All the Year Round (vol. v. p. 424). But on turning up. the reference I fail to discover any mention, of St. George's Gallery. Will your corre- spondent give the reference to the volume and page of All the Year Bound where the article to which he alludes first appeared ? I think it very probable that St. George's Gallery was a name given to the building originally erected in 1842 to serve the pur- pose of a Chinese exhibition. According to- The Illustrated London News (6 Aug., 1842, p. 204), the building stood on " the left hand side of the inclined plane extending from Hyde Park Corner to Knight sbridge, and
