28 MAY 1898, Page 12

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

A MEMORIAL TO MR. GLADSTONE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ SPECTATOIC.J

Sin,—If it should be the desire of the English people to raise some memorial to Mr. Gladstone besides that which is to be placed in Westminster Abbey, has not Reward= a claim to be the place, and St. Deb:dors Library a claim to be the 'object benefited by such a memorial? That noble gift of thirty thousand volumes — marked with his pencil and breathed upon with his spirit—ought not to remain for any length of time in the iron building which he provided for it. Surely £5,000 could be easily raised to build around it, in grateful remembrance, a worthier "temple of peace."—I am,