A " VIA SACRA."
[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sm,—A propos of Captain Gillespie's suggestion to make a road- s ria sacra—from the sea to Switzerland, may I ask the hospitality of your columns to offer a modification of that suggestion ? Some years ago there was, I think in your paper, a great discussion—or demon- stration rather—about the value of growing trees in disused church. yards, where, in the absence of such neutralizing presence, people might congregate to their own injury hygienically. The condition of the ground, for some very considerable breadth, along the line of the struggle of the last two years, will not bear thinking of, either as a place to grow crops, or on which to work at road-making or monument. building. Why not keep Captain Gillespie's idea, but transform the road into a belt of forest ? " And when your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, What mean ye by these " trees, " then ye shall let your children know, saying " : " These are the living memorials of the holy dead, who kept for us our civilization and our liberty." The For& de la Guerre (or some better title) will thus do honour to the
dead and protect the living.—I am, Sir, &c., M. E. M.
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