17 NOVEMBER 1900, Page 28

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S LIFE.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—In reading your interesting review of Professor Huxley's life in the Spectator of November 10th, the quota. tion from his letter to Mr. Morley referring to his dislike of the idea of death reminded me of the lines engraved on his tomb, and as they are peculiarly appropriate I venture to

send them. They were, I have always understood, written by his widow:—

"And if there be no meeting past the grave, If all is darkness, silence, yet 'tie rest. Be not afraid, ye waiting hearts that weep, For God still giveth His beloved sleep,' And if an endless sleep He wills—so best."