When the restoration of the well-known Milton window at St.
Margaret's, Westminster, is celebrated on Monday (at 6 p.m., in case any reader of this column thinks of going) one of the anthems to be rendered will be Parry's "Blest Pair of Sirens," which, since the damage to the window was caused by an air-raid, seems an unexceptionable choice. Milton was not precisely a pillar of the Church of England, but he lived for some time in the parish of St. Margaret's, in a house in Petty France, so there is every reason why his window should be where it is. When the window was unveiled in 1888 (Robert Browning and Professor W. E. H. Ledcy among others being "present) the address was given by Matthew Arnold. I shall be surprised if the address next Monday, by Dr. E. M. W. 'tillyard, Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, falls short of it.
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