The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-04-14
THE BRITISH DEAD.
j Ihn Paul AMONG dl.e TOanhS Of West
minister Abbey

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New York Tribune: l do not remember
who it is that defines glory as being killed
in battle and having ones name mis-
spelled in the newspapers Worse still
to have it misspelled on monument
Bingfeld. and not Bringfield, as the in
scription has it, was the name of the gal.
liant colonel:
Equerry to his Royal Highnesse
Prince George of Denmark, aide-de-camp
and gentleman of the Horse to his Grace
We Duke of Marlborough Eye victorious
general of her majesty's forces beyond We
sea) who. while he was Remounting his
Lord, upon a fresh Horse, his former
fayling under him, had his head fatally
shott by Cannon Ball in We Battell of
Ramelies on Wednesday We 18th day of
May in We year of our Lord 1706 and of
his Age So"
1t may please the Smiths the world
over to know that the Right Honorable
Anne, countess dOwager of Clanrickard,
was once a Smith" eldest daughter of
John Smith, Esq.," even, who has a
beautiful monument all to himself over
in the south aisle.
Sir Issac Newton's monument occupies
a left compartment of the organ-sereen-
that of StanhOpe occupying another on
the right, in the nave. The philosopher
is represented incumbent, slightly raised
on one arm, as he may have lain under
the tree when watching the fall of the
apple which-if there be anything in the
popular account of the discovery of grav-
itation-was indeed "the fruit of the
tree of knowledge" All the devices on
the monument do not please me, illustra-
tive though they are meant to be of his
discoveries and achievements. Weighing
the sun by a steel-yard strikes me as
neither bold" nor striking" That he
never did, and what he really did was
much more difficult He got at the
heavenly bodies without stairs, and
weighed them in hand without the aid
of balances! No feeling of levity comes
over you as you stand by the grave of
him who discovered the law of gravity.
And the grave is Immediately in front of
the monument, a conspicuous spot, re-
peatedly refused to different nOblemen,
who had asked for it. On the stone
above is written: g Hic depOsitum quod
mortale fuit Isaaci Newtoni." Near to
Newton's grave lie two Scotsmen, Robert
Stephenson-to whose memory a window
of stained glass has lately been given;
and Colin Campbell (Lord Clyde. And
yet another Scot, who went where en-
gineering has not to this period pene-
trated, and carried peace into Africa
further than Clyde did war into India,
rests near. :" Brought by faithful hands
over land and sea" after years of weary
travel, undertaken to "evangelize the ma.
tive races, to explore the undiscovered
secrets, TO abolish the desolating slave
trade of central Africa" David Living
stone, missionary, traveller, philanthropy
ist" sleeps beneath this black marble
slab; his epitaph closes with the last
words he wrote-a quotation from his
Master: Other sheep have which are
not of this fold; them also l must bring,
and they shall hear my voice"
The accompanying Latin verses from
Lucan, though written to describe the
desire of julius Cesar to penetrate one
vail which then, as now, hung over the
sources of the Nile, accurately embodies
the aspirations of the later Livingstone:
/" So great is my love of truth that
there is nothing | would rather know
than the causes of the river that have
laid hid through so many ages"
This insignificant tablet, whereon
simple name and dates only are written,
is 10 Henry Wharton, an eminent theO-
Logan, who died in 1649, age 31-the
most voluminous writer of his years in
the world. So it goes. He who writes
the most is the least written about.
The monument to the "mOst valuable
memory" of William Congreve, "sett
up by Henrietta, Dutchess of Mari
borough, as a mark how dearly she re-
members the happiness and honor she
enjoyed in the sincere friendship of so
worthy and honest man." caused a
good deal of talk at one time. Sarah,
mother of Henrietta, uncompromising
dowager that she was, made no bones OF
letting off her opinion of it. " Happi
ness, perhaps; honor she can not say
There was no need of perpetuating such
a scandal in stone, and considering the
of the alliance, the in
bad more appropriately been
written in brass.
The first wife of Sir Samuel Marland
has two Inscriptions on her back, one in
another for the benefit, proba
bly,, of those who do not read Hebrew
fuently-in Greek. Not to be partial,
the same widower a few years after fires
both barrels of his (or some one else's)
erudition over a second wife (who has
been cleverly brought to bay near by,
giving the parting shots this time in
Hebrew and Ethiopic. All may not be
upin Hebrew, he reasoned, perhaps; some
may not read Greek, but surely none can
be ignorant of Ethiopic.
Now you see our country on the walls
for the first time. The province of Mas
sachusetts bay erects, by order of general
court, memorial to Lord Howe, who
fell on the march to Ticonderoga in 1858.
Later in the century this same Massa-
chusetts, then a state, was unfortunately
as well as unwisely called upon to furnish
more material for monuments. And a re-
of our great struggle with the
mother country we find in this monu
nent to Andre, " beloved and esteemed
by the army in which he served and la
mented even by his foes" 1t has a
mournful interest to many, for all are
familiar with the story. Many want me-
too, and the head of Washington,
broken off and carried away by visitors,
has been three times renewed. Boys of
the nation find it easier to get ahead of
now than did the men of
l776.
All my life long I've been looking for
4 perfect woman ; now when | find one
brief and feeble tribute to the departed
worth which l find on her tomb shall go
on record in these classic
columns:
"To the Memory of Mrs Katharine
Bovey, Whose Person and Understanding
would have become the highest Ranke
in Female Life, and whose vivacity
would have recommended Her IL our
best conversation, But by judgment as
we'll as by Inclination she chose such a
as gave her great opportunity
for Reading and Reflection which she
made use of to the Wisest purposes of
in knowledge and Re
igion. Upon other subjects she ventured /
far out of the common way OF thinking, /
bat in Religious matters she made the !
Holy Scriptures, in which she was well /
skilled, the Rule and Guide of her Faith /
and Action, Esteeming it more safe TO /
rely upon the plain werd of God than to
run into any freedoms of thought upon /
reyeaPd Truths. Thegreat share of Time !