The friends of the late Mrs. Craik—the author of "John
Hali- fax, Gentleman," and "A Noble Life "—have determined to erect a personal memorial to her in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury being the place selected by her as the home of her most widely known hero, and the last place visited by her before her death. There is a fine thought in that selection, which treats the locale of a good novel as being as real as any place. The memorial will take the form of a marble medallion, which will be placed in that grand old abbey (which has lately been restored to a form in which it does not do the injustice it once did to its splendid architecture) ; and the Committee who are preparing the memorial have satisfied themselves that it can be so placed in Tewkesbury Abbey as to he seen to great advantage. We should ourselves have preferred a painted window to a mural tablet, simply because a fine painted window would associate Mrs. Craik's name more closely and more permanently with the beauty of the church she so much admired, by adding greatly to that beauty ; while a mural tablet is interesting chiefly during the lifetime of the friends and admirers of the popular author. But as the Committee have otherwise decided, we trust that a generous subscription will soon find the means of providing a noble monument to an honourable fame.
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