A meeting is to be held on Tuesday to determine
the form of the monument to the late Dean of Westminster ; but it is already known what is to be proposed. In the first place, there will bet a tomb to Dean Stanley himself, surmounted by a recumbent figure of the Dean, to be placed near his grave ; and, in the next place, a subscription is to be raised to complete- the restored Chapter-house of Westminster, by filling-in the windows with stained glass. This was a purpose which the Dean had at heart; and we can hardly honour him better than by carrying it out as he would have wished it to be carried out. He had planned the painted windows so as to make them iu some sense a memorial of the course of English history, with especial relation to those events closely connected with the Abbey. For one of the windows the Dean himself bad provided funds. Another will be given by the Queen ; while the meeting on Tuesday is intended to raise funds for providing three of the windows. A better monument to the late Dean, whose genius for history was always of that vivid and picturesque cha- racter which a pictorial window may fitly commemorate, it would be impossible to imagine. We earnestly trust that all who ap- preciated and reverenced him will give, whether it be little or much, in proportion to their means, to the only memorial we have it now in our power to erect.
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