30 Bight Hon. Sir M. E. Grant Duff [Jan. 27, 



Highly characteristic of a quite different frame of mind from that 

 which inscribed the stone I have mentioned, was another, placed 

 over some rough-banded, but faithful vassal, which was repeated to 

 me many years ago : — 



111 to bis freen 



Waur to his foe 



True to his M acker * 



In weal or in woe. 



To the Jews we owe at least one epitaph, the " In Pace " of the 

 Catacombs already alluded to, which was obviously suggested by the 

 word " Shallum " or " Peace," which seems to have been frequently 

 placed on the graves of the early Jewish settlers in Eome. I do not 

 know whether there are many remarkable modern ones. I have only 

 chanced to meet with one. This was inscribed in memory of a man 

 whom many I am addressing must have known, Mr. Deutsch of the 

 British Museum. It seems to me extremely fine : — 



" Here is entombed the well-beloved whose heart was burning with good 

 things, and whose pen was the pen of a ready writer. Menahem, Son of Abraham 

 Deutsch, whom the Lord preserve ! He was born at Neisse on the 1st Mashesh- 

 wan 5590 A.M., and departed from this world in Alexandria on Monday the 9th 

 Iyar in the year ' Arise, shine, for thy light is come.' May his soul be bound 

 up in the bond of life." 



Punning epitaphs, so common in English churchyards, are usually 

 beneath contempt, but one is very nearly good — that proposed by 

 Douglas Jerrold for the publisher Charles Knight — " Good Night." 



An epitaph on a dog by the first Lord Lytton, may be remembered 

 with Lord Grenville's, and with a very beautiful Greek one quoted 

 in Mr. Mackail's book already mentioned : — 



Alas, poor Beau, 

 Died February 28th, 1852. 

 It is but to a dog 

 That this stone is inscribed 

 Yet what now remains 

 In the House of thy Fathers, 

 Oh ! solitary Master, 

 Which will sigh for thy departure, 

 Or rejoice at thy return ? 



Some other rather striking English epitaphs, hardly, however , 

 striking enough to quote, may be read in Pettigrew, such as that on the 

 great musician Purcell in Westminster Abbey, or one on Atterbury 

 by Pope in the form of a conversation between the Bishop and his 

 daughter, who died suddenly in the arms of her father, whom she had 

 gone to visit in bis exile. 



I might add those on Prior and Gay, which are, however, familiar 

 to every one. 



* i.e. his feudal lord. 



