14 SEPTEMBER 1895, Page 17

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—Though possibly not an example of absent-mindedness, an inscription which I have seen in the cemetery at Doyles- town, U.S.A., is a singular one, at any rate in one sense of that word. In four corners of a lot are buried the wives of a man whose name I have forgotten, and a stone over each gives the name of the woman, wife of, let us say, T. Smith, dates of birth and death. In the middle of the lot is an im- posing monument, with the simple inscription of name, dates. of birth and death, and " Our Husband." His fourth wife, who survived him a few months, is credited with the arrange.

ment and inscriptions.—I am, Sir, &c., W. R. L.