7 JULY 1923, Page 10

There was never a more absolutely unanimous assent than that

given to the honouring of Page in the Abbey ; but it was through the prescience, sympathy and under- standing of the Dean that the desire of the nation was accomplished. But for that sympathy and under- standing, the physical obstacles could not have been overcome. The public probably does not realize how little wall-space is left within the precincts of the Abbey in which the great men of the English-speaking race can be commemorated. Our own suggestion, though there may be reasons against it, is that the cloisters—which, though they contain many monuments, are by no means full—should be used for future memorials.