Literary by-paths in old England . t. Thesquat pillars, the deep and capacious front, theKnights Templars tombs, are all as they high up in the corner of the chancel wall isa tablet which Gilbert White never saw. Thistablet has misled many pilgrims, for its first sen-tence reads thus: In the fifth grave from thiswall are buried the remains of the Revd Gil-bert White, Naturally, then, search ismade for the grave inside the church. It is soeasy to overlook the inscription at the top of thetablet which records that it was removed intothe chancel MDCCCX. Hardly would thepatient histo
Literary by-paths in old England . t. Thesquat pillars, the deep and capacious front, theKnights Templars tombs, are all as they high up in the corner of the chancel wall isa tablet which Gilbert White never saw. Thistablet has misled many pilgrims, for its first sen-tence reads thus: In the fifth grave from thiswall are buried the remains of the Revd Gil-bert White, Naturally, then, search ismade for the grave inside the church. It is soeasy to overlook the inscription at the top of thetablet which records that it was removed intothe chancel MDCCCX. Hardly would thepatient historian of the birds and flowers andinsects of Selborne have slept peacefully savein that open air which is their home. In thegraveyard, then, close to the northeast cornerof the church, must the simple headstone besought which marks where lies the dust of Gil-bert White. That lichen-stained stone is agrievance to some people; they write to thevicar, and urge him to place a modern memo-rial over the grave. How many there are who IN OLD ENGLAND have no sense of the fitness of things ! Happilythe vicar holds the sane opinion that a modemmemorial would be wholly out of keeping withGilbert Whites character and work; that this
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