Mr. Rhodes is going to do a very striking and
picturesque thing. He is going to turn the ruins of Zimbabye—those inscrutable masses of hard bare stone which stand naked in the wilderness and yield no man their secret—into a Walhalla for South Africa. There, according to a statement made by General Digby Willoughby to a Pa JITall interviewer, are to be deposited the bones of Major Wilson and the men who fell with him, and over them is to be placed a granite monu- ment. Mr. Rhodes hopes to be buried there himself, and he expressed to General Willoughby his "hope that in time to -come it would be as difficult to obtain sepulture in Zimbabye as it now is in Westminster Abbey." The ground is to be consecrated and a chapel erected, and a trust is to be created for holding the place in perpetuity. Mr. Rhodes has already provided £20,000 for the necessary expenses. The idea is as -original as it is imaginative, and shows, what we have often noticed, how the great prehistoric remains always appeal in a -special degree to men of English race. Stonehenge plays a 'far greater part with us than °erne° with the Trench. Go to Salisbury Plain at the dawn of the summer solstice, and you will find a crowd collected to see the rays of the rising sun strike the altar-stone.
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