16 OCTOBER 1875, Page 14

EPITAPHS AND SURVIVORS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—I think most of your readers will some time or other have seen the epitaphs alluded to in Saturday's Spectator. I send you one which has only just appeared in one of our cemeteries. It surpasses most in the success with which it manages the exaltation of the survivor. After saying, ' This stone was erected by his bereaved widow to the memory of So-and-so,' it concludes with these four lines :— " In love he lived, in peace he died, His wife was always by his side ; He left this world without a tear, 'Cept for the wife he held so dear."