24 JUNE 1916, Page 13

AN EPITAPH FOR LORD KITCHENER. [To TUE EDITOR OF TEE

" SPECTATOR.") Sra,—The manner of Lord Kitchener's death recalls the noble epitaph written by Propertius on the death of his friend Pae...us, drowned off the coast of Asia Minor :— " Nun° tibi pro tumule CarpoIliium omno mime —El., III. 7, 12.