ITo no Emma or rue "Sezersroa."3
Sta.—It is right and natural that people should wish for a cross to mark the resting-place of their beloved dead, and, as 005 of your correspondents points out, this form of memorial has been the spontaneous expression that the soldiers them- Rives have made use of. At the same time these who think of
the burial-places as a whole remember the restless and crowded effect produced in cemeteries here by serried ranks of crosses of different shapes and [sizes. Now the last thing we wish for in the graveyards where sleep our fallen soldiers is that restless. ness and crowding which numbers of small projections must inevitably produce. Is there not a way out of the difficulty Could not the cross be a recumbent one P The mound of the grave might be low and wide enough to bear on it a stone cross raised a little above the grass to keep its form distinct. There might be a headstone as well with the inscription. In this way the symbol would,be there, and also the restfulness of the place as a whole be preserved. Some might prefer a slab into which a cross of another kind of stone was inlaid, or carved on it. This variety would in no way hurt the general harmony of the
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