is growing apace. The King headed the subscription list with a donation of 1,000 guineas; the Bank of England followed suit, as also did Messrs. Rothschild and other firms of millionaires. It is estimated that the amount required will be something like £250,000 or about the same that was expended upon the memorial to the late Prince Consort. The central object of the present memorial will be Mr. Brock's statue of her late Majesty, which will be placed in a niagnificent shrine sur rounded probably by groups of statuary It was suggested that five artists and architects should be invited to confer with Mr. Brock and submit plans for the monument, but this idea has called forth so many letters pleading for a world-wide competition in the matter that an alternative scheme is under consideration. We have made so many monumental mistakes in the past that it is to be hoped the present will not add to their number. A well-known man remarked to me a few days ago, that it seemed to him they would build such a huge monument a now palace would be required to do justice to it.
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