NATIONAL MEMORIAL OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR.
[To TIM EDITOR OF Tar " SPECTATOILl
Sin,—Referring to the excellent proposal in your issue of June 21st to put up memorial tablets in Board-schools, I think that in addition to these special memorials there should be a great national memorial of the war and of those who have fallen. The grand old hall of Christ's Hospital in the City would be most suitable for the purpose, and could now, I believe, be purchased. This fine hall is said to be the largest in London after Westminster, the size being about 180 ft. by 50 ft. The walls might be decorated with marble tablets, brasses, and trophies of the war, and the body of it used for drill purposes by Volunteer corps who have no suitable place of their own. Many Londoners would also be glad to see this old landmark preserved from the hand of the destroyer. If the matter were taken up by the City Fathers and members of 'the Stock Exchange there would be little difficulty in raising the purchase-money, and I hope you will ventilate the proposal in your influential paper.—I am, Sir, (tc.,
A SUBSCRIBER.
[We greatly like our correspondent's proposal, and hope that it may be taken up, unless there should prove to be some practical objection to the scheme, which is not, we admit, visible on the surface.—ED. Spectator.]
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