10 JUNE 1899, Page 15

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] venture to send you

an attempt to render the epitaph given in your-last number by "Olim Harroviensis ":— Rnown but to few, to fewer still unknown, Democritus the Younger 'neath this stone Doth He. To him did Melancholy give In life to die, but yet In death to live.

— I am, Sir, &e., E. H.