SI MoNrsimirtim. . . .
Everycna who is concerned for the preservation of rural England has long been grateful to the Dean of St. Paul's for his invention of the word " Bungaloid," which has had as high a value for propaganda as any new word in the language. From the same witty Dean has come a jest, not about the country roadside but about the City road ; and it is so pat and crisp that it deserves its full meed of publicity. The Dean, so it is credibly reported, was crossing a very dangerous street inthe neighbourhood of St. Paul's, and warned the friend who accompanied him almost in the words of Wren's famous epitaph : Si monumentum non requiris, eireumspice " : If you do not want a gravestone (often known as monumental masonry), keep your eyes open. Had the phrase been used in Oxford it would have had yet further point, for in that city of dangerous driving a number of the street " refuges " were put up on the site of casualties and are called " monuments."
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