3 JUNE 1899, Page 14

THE LAPIDARY STYLE.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Would you perhaps think well to add the following lines, so eloquent in their concise pathos, to your instances of the lapidary style? The quotation is from the inscription placed, by his own direction, to the memory of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart., in the church of Stourton, Wilts. (The church stands in Stourhead Park, the seat of the Hoares.) Sir Richard Colt Hoare died, aged eighty, in 1838. Hester, his wife, died aged twenty-five, in 1785 :— " Inque sepulchro,

Si non urns tamen junget nos liters, si non Ossibus ossa tuis, at nomen nomine tangam."