A COLONIAL MEMORIAL.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:']
SIR,—More than a year ago, I think, you suggested that a memorial should be set up to commemorate the help given by our Colonies in the South African War; and the suggestion was worthily received. It is to be hoped that it will be neither forgotten nor misapplied. A proposal seems to have been made that a half-built church at Cape Tewn should be completed with this commemorative intent. This is a pro- ject laudable in itself, but, as the Principal of the University of Glasgow has forcibly pointed out in the Times, it mainly concerns a particular religious community, and cannot possibly be accepted as an adequate national monument. The only place, moreover, for such a monument is an open space in the chief city of the Empire, where it may remind her sons at home of the deeds of their brothers oversea.—I am, Sir, &c., ERNEST MYERS.
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