1 NOVEMBER 1873, Page 16

"MOTTOES FOR MONUMENTS."

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—In your impression of Saturday I find noticed a book entitled 'Mottoes for Monuments," from which you make three quotations, and ascribe the last to Miss Proctor. Will you allow me to say that we do not owe to her pen any of those lines, so curiously mixed together by the compilers of the book? The first four lines,— " I am rising and not setting, This is not night, but day,

Not in darkness, but in sunshine, Like a star I fade away,"

are taken from a poem by Bonar, entitled " On the Threshold ;" while the last six, of a totally different metre, form the last stanza of Mrs. Browning's well-known ode to " Sleep."—I am, Sir, &c., E. T.