12 OCTOBER 1918, Page 15

"HE TRIED TO MAKE BEAUTIFUL THINGS." [To THE EDITOR OF

THE "SPECTATOR") SIR,—I should be greatly obliged if you, or one of your readers, could tell me the origin of the epitaph in which is included the

line : "He tried to make beautiful things."

—I am, Sir, &c., A. J. autism Corner of High Street and Newport Street. Old Swindon, Wiltshire.