24 FEBRUARY 1900, Page 16

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—May I suggest with regard to the idea you so ad- mirably advocate, of a monument being erected in the heart of London to our gallant Colonial soldiers who have fallen in the defence of the Empire, that it may be made of blocks of stone sent from each Colony, like that of Washington, which was composed of stone from each State in America P—I am,