[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—Adverting to your reference
to the memorial tablet to the heroic stewardess .of the `Stella,' and to your remarks upon it, how striking are these lines of Alfred Tennyson's, conveying the same idea:— " No sound is breathed so potent to coerce
And to conciliate, as their names who dare For that sweet motherland which gave them birth, Nobly to do, nobly to die. Their names Graven on memorial columns, are a song
Heard in the future ; few, but more than wall
And rampart, their examples reach a hand Far thro' all years, and everywhere they meet And kindle generous purpose, and the strength To mould it into action pure as theirs."
You will find them in his " Tiresias." I think, moreover, if in every county town the names of those belonging to the county who died for their country by land or sea, were re- corded on a wall of honour, that the country itself would be a gainer in more ways than one.—I am, Sir, &c., 31 Welbeck Street, WI, May 29th. ARCHIBALD PEEL.
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