THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD.
By EVELYN WRENCII.
IN connexion with Mr. Strachey's interesting article advocating some form of national tribute to Dr. Page, American Ambassador to Great Britain during the War, in Westminster Abbey, it is not without interest to recall the names of Dr. Page's fellow-countrymen whose memory is kept green within the Abbey's walls. Most people know the Longfellow memorial in Poets' Corner, which bears the inscription ; " This bust was placed amongst the memorials of poets of England by English admirers." James Russell Lowell, like Dr. Page a representative of the United States in London, is honoured by a coloured window and tablet in the vestibule to the old Chapter House. The inscription says : " This tablet and the window above were placed here in memory of James Russell Lowell when United States Minister to the Court of St. James, from 1880 to 1885, by his English friends." Another mural tablet to an American is that to Colonel Joseph Lemuel Chester, who was born at Norwich, Connecticut, in 1821, and died in London in 1882. The tablet bears the following words : " The learned Editor of the Westminster Abbey Register; in grateful memory of the distinguished labour of an American master of English genealogical learning, this tablet was erected by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster."
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