The Shakespearean invitation to talk of graves has been accepted
rather widely since the question of tomb- -stone design was raised last week by the. Dean of West- minster and others. It is satisfactory to find stress laid on simplicity of design. I hope equal stress will be laid on simplicity of inscription. Many notable historic -epitaphs come to mind, some of them elaborate, but I have never yet seen one more impressive than the " A soldier of the Great- War, known unto God " over tens of thousands of graves in France ; or the well-known " Jane Taylor, Deare Child " (I quote from memory) in the cloisters at Westminster. And he must be a confirmed devotee of the ornate who will not prefer the ,Friends' burial-ground at Jordans, with its plain slate - headstones, each bearing .simply a name, with date of - birth and date of death, to any Campo Santo in Italy.
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