[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1
Stn,—Your proposal for a Colonial monument, and the Rite for it in Trafalgar Square (Spectator, February 24th), demanded by your correspondent "H. S.," are to the point and admirable. But may I suggest, as even a more lasting memorial, that the terms "Colony," "Colonist," "Colonial," should be allowed to drop out of the common language, and that the dwellers in "The Dominion of Canada," "The of South Africa," "The Commonwealth of Australasia," and the inhabitants of the Crown possessions over the "Seven Seas" should be known and named distinct- ively, and each for each? And further, the time is surely at hand when the people of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Empire of India, shall be known, with the above, while retaining their individuality, by the generic name of With your permission I will leave the filling of the blanks to
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