24 AUGUST 1912, Page 14

A SUGGESTED MEMORIAL TO MISS OCTAVIA HILL.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—While the thought of the noble life and the noble aims of Miss Octavia Hill are especially in our minds, I would suggest through your pages—read by so many of those who appreciated her—that some memorial should at once be agreed upon and a subscription set on foot. Money is still needed to complete the purchase of "Places of Natural Beauty," as the report of the " National Trust" informs us. For these she pleaded with all her powers, and to complete these purchases, or some of them, might be considered a suitable memorial. Perhaps a tablet on some lovely hill-top might record the fact that it was secured to the nation in memory of Octavia Hill.