10 JANUARY 1941, Page 5

Quotation of that rather hackneyed epigram, by the way, is

rather tragically apposite at a moment when the Nazi-fed flames have destroyed so much of its truth. But it serves to remind one of Dr. Inge's brilliant emendation. " Whenever I have to cross St. Paul's Churchyard from the Deanery to the Cathedral," he once observed, I always say to myself, ' Nisi monumentum requiris, circumspice.' " *- * * *