New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-03-18
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
LETTER FROM JOHN PAUL.

EPITAPHS.
LONDON, Feb. 15.-I do not remember who
1t Is that defines glory being killed in battle and hnv-
ing ono's name misspclied in the newspapers. Worse
still to have II msspe,led monument! Bingncld,
and not Brngfeld las the inscription has p was the
name of the gallant Colonel.
Equerry to his Royal II,ghnesse Prince George Of
his Grace We Duke Of maribors tyc victorious general
of her Majesty forces beyond se who. while he was
laying uHdcr im, had bis head fatally shott by Can
Ball in We Batell OF lies on Wednesday yc 10TH
So
II may please the Smiths all the world over to know
that thu Righ. Honorable Anne. Countess Dowager OF
Clanrickard, was a Smith" Eldest Daughter Of
John Smith, esq.," even, who has beautiful monument
all to himself over In the south aisle.
Sir Isaac Newtons monument occupies left compart
mcnt OF the organscrcen-tba of 5tanhope occupying
another the right I'm the The philosopher Is
represented recumbent slightly raised on one arm az he
may have lain under the when watching the fan OF
that apple which-if there be anything in the popular
account Of the discovery OF gravtaOn indeed the
fruit OF the tree Of knowledge" All the devices on the
monument do please me- illustrative though they are
to be Of his discoveries and achievements WEIGH
Ing the by secyard strikes neither =" bold
nor striking" That lie did, and what Ec really
did was much more difficult. He got at the heavenly
bodies without stairs. and weighed item in hand without
the aid Of baanees No feeling Of evity comes over yon
the law OF gravity. And the grave Is iInine-
dntey I'm front OF the monument conspicuous
SPOT repeatedly refused different nhlemen, who had
asked for H. On the stone above Is written:
"Hic dcposium Iuod moItale fait islaci Ne"ton'
Near to Ncwton's gave lie two scotsmen, Robert
stephensun-!o whose memory o window OF stained
glass has lately been given and Colin Campbell fcrd
Cyde Aud yet another Scot who went where engineer
Ing has 10 tis period penetrated, and carried peace
into Africa further Than clyde did war into Iudin rests
near Brought nv faithful hands over land ard sea-
after years OF weary travel undertaken ito eyaneellze
the native explore the unds secrets, TO
abolish the desolatng slave trade OF Central Africa"
David Livingstone ssionary Traveller, philantarUpst,
sleeps this black marble slab his eptaD closes
with the last words lie wrote-a quotation iron his
Master:
Other sheep have which are not of this fold; them
also must lrns, and they shall rear Ny voice.
The accompanying Latin verses from Lucan. though
written To describe the desire Of Julius Caesar to pene-
trntc vail which then hung over the sources
OF the Nile, accurately cmbodles tie aspirations OF the
later Livingstone:
So great is my love o. truth that there is nothing
would rather know than tn OF the river that have
Lain hid THROUGH 80 many ages.
This insignificant tablet wherein simple name and
dates only written ia Ia Henry wharton, an eminent
theological who died in 1919. age 3l-thc most volum-
mons writer Of his years In the world 50 II goes He
who writes the most is the least written about Witness
me!
DEAN sPRAT AND MILTON.
Just please the children, and with no intention at
all Of having 81 cnt his tomb. wrote new eptaPh
for Thomas srrat. d. D., Dean Of Westminster
and Bishop of Rochester. Tnc ep;aph already there Is
merlorou. in It's way. but mine moves to livclier
measure is jcyouscr in cHaracterhas more music in It's
heels. so 10 speak. Thgs:
Thomas sprat
Cut II fat,
Though he had fOr his wife n Helena
When the loor-,'iatc WAS seen
L. was said that no Dam
Could hav, lett tia; came platter mucI cleaner
Elcgiac poetry not IN my way exactly, and thercsn no
money IN IT, so apprehension necd he entertained OF
my going about the country writing cp'taphs for living
But did want IA shot 81 the Dean. IL provoked me To
know that In his bitter royalism he never allowed the
name OF Milton to written the walls Of the Abbey,
even in Incidental comparison with another poet Ias
tbouc for-ooih Charlcs did not TO all ntents ami pur
poses cut of his head Ia spite his Parliamentary
bodyl AMI II was not until another Dean came into
Office that the name appears. Yet all tbis
while the remains OF Aphra Behn were lying
In the cloistcrs. and the natural children and
i,trcscs OF Charles Iburicd under the very nose ~
sp,tblocaed the aiscs ana numbered the holy ohapes
Which IS worse. Ia de,apitatc king or debaueh
kii gdon You must let me say On !. mean REVENGE
know, but am capable OF ~ that spnt is III an nsIc-
li-t where a sur-Dcan should he
Does n seem strange nj all that IN church conse-
Grated 10 the Prince the Prince Of Prize Fight
crs " should have place Yet John BroughtoD-so dis
tnguslcd-is buried In the cloisters. Champion OF
England" was traced his gfavestonc, but the Dean
Iohn TlOias would not allow IL TO be cat. why hotI
Conspicuous fighters who have won great prizes ana dis
tugushcd champions, are held In grat estimation
Capt Corncwalps monument. SO feet high. shows ships
engaged IN the losing Of rakng each other fore
aud at though rocks that might be protby raked Tor
oysters are within reach. while Fame ndges un"aslly
under a palm tree because she cannot pluck hgieaves
from II, perhaps. The monument Il nice enough no
rally he
ing by chain shot deprived OF both his legs n; blow
Blow thy trump as thou wilt, o Fame. but no such
elbows" as this for me Then In another part OF the
nave there's Tyrre,l ian admiraD cutting al0f among
what are FOR clouds but look Ike oyster shells 1T
e wonder that he shows anxiety Ia get away from
the mcrInaids below, who seem TO be petng him. Rou-
biliac is answerabsfor good deal of this sort OF thing
the monument IIargravc for instance, 10 which Time
scuncs with skeleton while pyramids fall and the dead
turn out ut the sound Of the resurrection reyeile Rou-
biliac must have been hreeatcr.
WILLIAM CONGREyF.
The monument 10 the "most Valuable Memory OF
william Congreve, "sctt up by Henrietta, Ddehess o!
Marlborough, mark how dearly She remembers tie
happiness Honour She enjoyed in the Sincere Friend
ship OF 80 worthy and Honest man. caused u good
deal OF talk time. saral. mother of Henrietta
upcompromsing dowager that she was, male no bones
OF letting of her opinion OF It, Happiness. perhaps;
honour say" There was no need on perpct-
uatng such scandal In stone. and considering the no
torousness Of the alliance, the inscription had more
appropriately been written In brass.
The first wife OF Sir samlcl Marland has two nscrip-
tons to her back in Hebrew another for the benefit
probably those who do not read Hebrew hnenty-in
Greek Not to be partial, the same wdower few years
after fires both barrels Of his Tor some one eses eud
ton over a second wife twho has been cevery brought
10 bay near by giving the parting shots this time III He
brew and Ethioplc. All may not be up in Hebrew, he
reasoned perhaps; some may not read Greek but surely