11 JUNE 1921, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] (PLACED us HOLUB

CULTRAM ABBEY.) SIR,—The inscription on the memorial to those of the parish of Holme Cultram, Cumberland, who fell in the Great War is as follows :-

"They gave their bodies to the common weal, and received praise that will never die, and a home in the minds of men." From the oration of Pericles on those who fell in the first year of the Peloponnesian War.—I am, Sir, &c., The Vicarage, Cumwhltton, Carlisle. ALLAN M. MCFARLAN.