We trust that, now that the General Election is over,
the public will spare a little attention to the Lowell Memorial. It is proposed to fill the two windows in the Westminster Chapter House, which have not as yet been completed, with stained glass in memory of Mr. Russell Lowell, who is as much one of the great names of our literature as Sheridan or Southey or Hazlitt or Lamb, though he belongs to that section of it beyond the Atlantic. The Westminster Chapter House is a most appropriate place for the memorial, since Mr. Lowell delivered three addresses there : one on the erection of the memorial to Longfellow ; one on the unveiling of the bust of Coleridge ; and one at a meeting held to promote the Stanley memorial. Mr. Leslie Stephen has had the honour of starting this movement on behalf of his friend, and a subscription has been commenced which may, we hope, reach a point high enough to cover amply the cost of the windows. Subscriptions may be paid to Messrs. Robarts, Lubbock and Co., 15 Lombard Street; or to Mr. Leslie Stephen, 22 Hyde Park Gate, S.W.; or to Mr. G. Herbert Tfiring, 4 Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn.
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