Lord Granville unveiled a memorial to Mr. Fawcett in the
Baptistery of Westminster Abbey yesterday week, by Mr. Gilbert, the sculptor. Previously to the ceremony, there was a meeting in the Jerusalem Chamber, at which the Dean of Westminster presided, and explained how rapidly all the available space for memorials of this kind was disappearing, though he bad bad no scruple in deciding to admit the memorial to Mr. Fawcett. It must stand, however, not among the statesmen, but among the groupof poets and divines, George Herbert, Cowper, Wordsworth, Keblo, Maurice, and Kingsley ; but the Dean did not, he said, at all regret this not unsuggestive grouping of men with claims of so very varied a kind on the national regard. It was Mr. Fawcett's enthusiasm for the claims of the poor to fresh air and accessible natural beauties which formed a natural link between the benefits he had conferred on the nation and those of the imaginative writers and thinkers amongst whom he was to be placed. The indomitable resolution with which Mr. Fawcett had struck out a career for himself after blindness had fallen upon him, would leave " a legacy of hope to all visited like him by misfortune." Beneath the portrait of Mr. Fawcett are bronze allegorical figures representing Industry, Fortitude, Patience, Zeal, Sympathy, and Brotherhood. " Patience " is hardly the exact name for the quality which Mr. Fawcett displayed. It was not so much patience as a more active quality,—doggedness, the staying quality of effort at full strain.
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