24 JUNE 1916, Page 3

English readers will be deeply touched by the following telegram

circulated by Renter's agency :—

"Yale University has awarded the Howland Memorial Prize of 500 for distinction in literature to Rupert Brooke. The announcement is made as follows : On an isle in the Argean, under olives, by the sounding sea, lies buried a young Englishman; poet and soldier, dead on the way to Gallipoli. To Rupert Brooke, the patriot poet, the Howland Prize is this year given.'"

Expressions of gratitude or comment of any sort would be out of place. It is enough that we feel and understand all that is meant by Yale's message to England.