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Greek, Latin, Italian, French and English began to flow in ; 

 Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, and Lord Jeffrey, Baron Alderson, 

 Dr. Moberley (Head Master of Winchester), Dr. Scott (the 

 Master of Balliol), Peter Cunningham, Lord Tenterden, Dean 

 Milman, Bishop Maltby, Sir John -Williams and Archdeacon 

 Wrangham, are a few of the names of eminent men who 

 responded to the invitation for inscriptions. Lord Brougham is 

 credited with a Greek epigram on the happy shot and the 

 monument to which it led, but all his lordship did was to obtain an 

 epigram from Lord Wellesley. Very few of these distinguished 

 and learned gentlemen had wit enough to get beyond the some- 

 what obvious point that the man who killed the birds with his gun 

 conferred immortality upon them with his chisel. And it is 

 noteworthy that not one of the many pieces sent in was deemed 

 worthy of being inscribed on the monument. Bishop Maltby's 

 epigram in Greek, to the effect that " By one man's skill both 

 perished, but the life the sportsman took the artist gave," is neat 

 rather than classical, and more classical than correct, for the 

 epigrammatist has to call a modern English gentleman with a gun 

 " an archer ; " though to be sure he is outdone by Archdeacon 

 Wrangham, who declares that the sculptor slew them una sagittd, 

 with " one arrow " ! A better epigram is Dean Milman's : 



" Uno ictu morimur simul uno vivimus ictu." 



" By one stroke we died, by another lived " though, to be sure, 

 it takes a good many strokes to accomplish a marble bas-relief. 

 One of the best English epigrams on these rather obvious lines is 

 Mr. Bacon's, barring the two redundant syllables in the last line : 



"They fly, they fall, by Chantrey's hand they die ; 

 Yet live, for he to life gives immortality." 



