The enthusiasm with which projects for hallowing the memory of
great men in America are greeted might well serve as an incentive to us in the British Isles. The public-spirited action of a few individuals has preserved for us as museums the homes in London of Carlyle, Johnson, Hogarth and Wesley, to mention a few names which come readily to mind. But we have yet to dis- charge our full debt to the departed. How many names suggest themselves during the past 150 years of those whom we might honour by dedicating the houses in which they lived as museums, as has been done in the four I have mentioned 1 Why not a Ruskin Museum at Den- mark Hill, a Pitt House at Hampstead, a Browning Museum in Wimpole Street where Robert Browning first wooed Elizabeth Barrett ? But the list is capable of indefinite expansion.
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