Efforts are being made to raise a modest monument to
the late Mr. Leigh Hunt, whose grave at Kensal Green is entirely undis- tinguished. About 150/. will be required, of which, as we understand, 75/. have been already raised, and lie at Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co's., Pall Mall East, by whom further subscriptions will be received. Mr. Leigh Hunt was the intimate friend of Shelley, by whom he was greatly beloved ; and whatever rank his genius may take with our posterity, he will always be memorable as one of a constellation of brilliant men, one of various groups of which Lamb and Hazlitt, and Shelley and Byron were some of the most dis- tinguished figures. Even Mr. Carlyle, who is not prone to over- value the lighter kind of literature, and has, we believe, never done justice to Lamb, has estimated highly Leigh Hunt's genius. Clearly Leigh Hunt should have a monument, and not lie appa- rently unhonoured, when so many living men of genius profess to honour him highly.
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