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nondence. The name of Steele is in
separately linked with that of Addison
as he was large contributor to "1he
Spectator, 1.-The Guardian aud "The
Tatler,' but there is no memorial to
him in the Abbey. This fact brought
to my mind the words in Addison
remarks on the Abbey ''There are
poets who had no monuments and
monuments which had no poets and
this is certainly true for | saw no me-
mortal to James Shirley author Of
"The Gamesters' many other plays
and s'Death's Final Conquest; Robert
Herrick, lyric poet, who wrote the
beautiful little odes "To Blossoms
$40 DaffodiIs' and 'To Meadows;
George Crabbe, whom Byron styles
natures sternest painter, yet the best
author of ''The Parish Register Dan
iel Defoe writer OF every bodys story
Robinson Crusoe, aud the founder of
the modern novel; crustv old Tobias
Smollett Of "Peregrine Pickle, fame;
George Eliot who gave us "Mlddle-
march" and ''Daniel Deronda:' Alex
ander Pope although he wrote an cpl
taph for nearly every poet IN the Alb
bev and furnishes us with more quota
tons than any English poet. Shak' S
peare excepted: Thomas Moore, the
':sweet son of song with all his melo
dies: Laurence Sterne author Of Girls
tram Shandy;" William Collins whose
so lie On the Passions breathes fire
of lyric verse that is unexcelled:C Chris
topher Marlowe, the greatest English
dramatist who preceded Shakespeare,
au} hor Of 'sDr. Faustus' a subject inn
itated by both Calderon and Goethe,
.:Dean' Swift. ''the Engl-h Rablais,
who wrote ''Tale of a Tub; Sir Wal
ter Scott accounted our most popular
| write1, but his countrymen have re-
membered him by cree ing monu-
ment of magnificent proportion IN the
Scottish capitol; Thomas Chat erton,
the wonderful boy of Bristol a tc/o dr.
Sc at 10, leaving works which have
impressed themselves upon such pc is
| as Tennvson and Keat>; Samuel Rich
ardson author of probably the largest
English novel ''Clarissa Harlowe and
Henry Fielding, "Tom Jones, &C
counted the greatest novel-writers OF
the eighteenth century; George Cor
don Byron, probably more fitted by
natural talent for poetrymaklng than
| any of his brother poets, whose body
| rests at Newstead Abbey and strange
again that John Keats and Percy Is s
she Shelley should have no memorials
in the Abbey, but their graves on
Italian soil are not neg lected and the
visitor reads on Keats tomb the words
-''Here lies he whose name was writ
in water" and Shelley's-cor cor't"m-
''heart of hearts There is no trace
of Bulwer Lvtton IN Poet S Corner but
in the chapel OF st Edmund is a black
! marble slab on which his name Is III
scribed in golden lett.rs with a full
some account of his many distinguish
| ed acts, his intellectual activity and
his genius as an author. Retraclng
our steps now TO the tomb Of CHANGER
we find slab marking the resting spot
of Robert Browning and by his side at
the very feet of tue ''Morning Star of
Song" all that is mortal of Alfred,
L,rl T-nnyson. The laureates grave
is covered by a gray marble slab with
the name, date of birth and death of
the poet. And it is not without sig
nifcance thai Tennyson and Brown
ing two of the greatest poets OF our
times should rest at the feet OF Chau-
Ger. A few steps away is a bust OF
Longfellcw, and another Of Tennyson,
on pillar opposite his grave. | for
got that | was an American and on
nv second visit to the Abbey placed
a wreath of flowers on Tennyson S
grave without thought Of the Amer
lean which | admit is a stigma upon
my patriotism but after all | was sim
ply emphasizing my preference for
Tennyson over every other poet me-
moriaIized in the Abbey, an act that |
would repeat, consequently | have no
qualms of patriotic conscience. shall!
next write You about the Royal
Tombs.
Continued in next issue.)