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Gilbert could, off-hand, depict with equal truth ladies and gentlemen, servants, vil- lains, horses, carriages, dogs, or any other animals. Costume and armour never seem to have required a thought. But mine is a very feeble pen : here is a piece from that of a professional writer in The Times of 26 Dec., 1860, p. 4, being from a notice of four and a half columns reviewing Staunton's ' Shakespeare ' (1857-60) :

" We ought not to pass by, unobserved the illustrations of these volumes, but say a word of Mr. John Gilbert, who has done so much to adorn them. It shall be a word of admiration. \V< arc, indeed, delighted with his fluency of thought and mastery of expression. The designs are many hundreds in number, and frequently make the best notes on the dramas. They are manifold in style as in excellence. Sentiment and descriptions, chivalrous, picturesque, hu- morous, and pathetic, obtain a treatment at once characteristic and effective. The reader has the outlines, and may colour them from the poetry. Mr. Gilbert is almost the only popular artist who draws a pretty woman. v He never scares us with a Pre-Raphaelite frigh't, starved upon parish allowance. Take Juliet, full of the warm south, or sweet Ann Page, worthy of her reputation. We do not know if Mr. Gilbert quite liked his classical subjects. There is less of heart in them than in the homelier scenes. But always we find graceful drawing, harmonious Touping, and letting contrast."

Finally, to add to the wonders done by is great artist, I am told that he had no wardrobe, no armour, and never needed models to sit to him. He drew everything, as the children say, " out of his own head." RALPH THOMAS.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 ; 11 S. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 381 ; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181, 361 ; v. 62, 143, 481 ; vi. 4, 284, 343; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442; viii. 4, 82, 183, 285, 382, 444 ; ix. 65, 164, 384, 464; x. 103, 226.)

RELIGIOUS LEADERS, &c. (continued).

C. H. SPTTRGEON.

Stockwell. In the grounds of Stockwell Orphanage a memorial to Mr. Spurgeonwas mv.-iled on 19 June, 1894. It is modelled n terra-cotta, the work of the late Mr. jeorpe Tinworth. In the centre is a life- <ize statue of the pastor, in the attitude of ipeakinp, with left hand upraised and right land grasping a chair-back. At his feet hildrcn arc grouped. Right and left in !he background are panels descriptive of

scenes in Pastor's College and StockwelF Orphanage, into each of which Mr. Spurgeon's figure is appropriately introduced. On an oblong tablet below the preacher's feet is- inscribed :

This Hall and Monument erected to the memory of Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

" The objects of our care are not far to seek. There they are at our gates widows worn downs with labour, often pale, I emaciated, delicate, and even consumptive ; children half famished, growing up neglected, surrounded with tempta- tion. Can you look | at them without pity ? We cannot. We will work for them through our Orphanage, as long as our brain can think, and our pen can | write, and our heart can love. Neither sickness nor weariness shall tempt us to- flag in this sacred enterprise." C. H. Spurgeon,- 1879. | June 19th, 1894.

Norwood. Mr. Spurgeon's grave is in Norwood Cemetery, at the summit of the hill, near the Nonconformist Chapel. Here- he was laid to rest on 11 Feb., 1892. On 19 April, 1893, the monument erected over his remains was unveiled- It

" consists of a plinth measuring 13 ft. by 11 ft. and 6 ft. high. Rising from this is a tier of three- steps upon which is erected a handsome panelled and coped tomb, enriched at each corner with- columns of Labrador granite, with capitals and bases of white Carrara marble supporting the massive capstone. In the front panel of the tomb is a fine portrait medallion of the deceased from the chisel of Mr. Joseph Whitehead of Vincent Square, Westminster, which was executed from photographs. Immediately below the medallion, and resting upon the steps, is a cushion of polished red granite, with an open Bible in marble, bearing the text ' I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.' With the exceptions stated, the entire work is of polished grey granite of different shades."

In the centre of the plinth is a panel in- scribed as follows :

Here lies the body of

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

waiting for the appearing of his

Lord and Saviour

Jesus Christ.

Another panel at the side bears the follow- ing lines :

This monument was erected in loving memory of

C. H. Spurgeon

who was born at Kelvedon, Essex, June 19, 1834, and fell asleep in Jesus at Mentone, France,

January 31, 1892. E'er since by faith I saw the stream

Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme,

And shall be till I die. Then in a nobler, sweeter song I '11 sing Thy power to save, When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave.