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miro me Sentimental Journey" almost
more than we English do. and TO say this
sufi1ciently suggests It's faults as we'll as
its merits. Samuel Richardson, moro
proper but less Interesting. rests at St
Brides. il ever man needed rest he must,
after penning such elaborate works as
"Clarissa" and "Slr Charles Grandson"
How many modern readers can boast
OF having finished either OF these lengthy
and wordy classics? But, Of course
when a book IS promoted to classical
dignity, IT is not supposed to be readable
any longer.
For the grave Of one whose writings ace
neither improper nor unnteresting, We
must 20 TO Edmonton. Ella IS buried
here, In a spot which he had himself Sc
lected about a fortnight before his death.
Our love for Charles Lamb is only
equalled by our admiration. Essayist, hu-
morst. critic, prose-poet-in every aspect
he was sreat; and an even rarer 81 tat
ness lay In the Ions. self-sacrldce that
marked his life. His grave should be
decked with uudying blossoms from year
to year. Colercse. who had died shortly
before lies at Hghgate. Poor Lamb had
walked about as in dream, repeating TO
himself 'Colerdge is dead; Coeridge IS
dead The loss OF his friend seemed TO
be his own death-kIen. In the Temple IS
the tomb OF another writer whose per-
sona'ity we love as well as his books
oliver Goldsmith. Though frightened by
some successes. his life was rather a SAD
one; Ike Lamb, he lived unmarried. and
.p both their hearts there was doubtless a
longing for domestic affection. Not all OF
his contemporaries did Justice to Gold
smith, but the greatest of them did, and
his friendship with Or. Johnson was per-
haps Che brightest featur. in a life Of
toll an1 poor rewards. In the Vicar or
WakeAeld" we have at least one classic
that is thoroughly readable Thackeray
VINO paid generous tribute to poor Gold
3niths genius, has enriched Kensal-
green with his own remains. There can
be little doubt now that posterity viii
place Thackeray distinctly at the head
OF Victorian noyelsts, though his rivals
ana companions are not a few
Disciples Of art will find many at
tractVe shrines in scattered London
churchyards. HDlbein lies at st. Cathe-
rine Crees; Gainsborough at Kew. Leigh
Hunt, genial essayist and pleasing poet
lies at kensal-green; at Deptford we
find the grave Of Christopher Marlowe;
at ChiswicA that OF the moral and power
ful Hogarth. The poet Rogers, rests at
Hornsey; Sir Walter Raleigh. cruelty
murdered by the pusllanimous James, at
st. Margarets. Westminster. A man
great in 50 many different ways well
merited a grave In the neighboring Abbey
Ills companion at st. Margaret's is the
printer and man OF letters, William Cax-
ton. Such are some Of the graves that
lie sprinkled among the burial places
OF mighty London. A careful search
will be rewarded with many more-so
many that even their names cannot be
mentioned here. Perhaps the great city
g not always very attentive 20 the dust
OF its famous dead; there IS so much
Of more pressing importance to be
thought about. Now and again public
notice IL drawn to the fact that such
and such an illustriOus grave is In ruin
OF neglect, and then, the national con-
science, with more or less zeal, sees that
the neglected sepulchre Is duly honored
and renovated. lingo Jones sleeps az St.
Benets. having left many a building to
perpetuate his memory; and al st. Giles
in-the-Fields. IS the grave OF Flaxman.
Here also lie Ch pman. Andrew
Marvell; Lord Herbert, Of CLerbury
Cover, Fletcher the dramatst. and Mas
singer, are buried at 81. Siviours, South
wark. At Bighgate were laid the remains
of George Eliot. the greatest wOman-in-
tellect that has spoken in literature,
though for sheer genius probably the
Bionte girls Dear thr pam. IN nctloh
fashions change so rapidly that the most
popular writer OF one generation IS al
most totally neglected In the next; but
this by no means affects the place these
writer's take In the literary world. George
Eliot IS not greatly read hOw-she, as
we'll as the Brontes. has been driven ont
by the modern sex-novels and question
able Tribes; but her position IS well
assured in spite Of that. and her grave
is a notable spot. Birchington VIII be
sought by lovers Of poetry and lovers OF
art, for there they will find the resting
place Of Dante Rosetu, great In both de-
partment5 The mans personality VS.
striking, and his influence IN the main
was good but his work doe not make for
permanence. Such are d few notable
London graves; seekers will find many
more