[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—Is it too much to hope that in the planning of War Memo- rials, the need of open spaces for the people in our large towns, the need of playing-grounds for the children of our Elementary Schools in the country, will not be forgotten? How better could we show our gratitude to the towns and villages that sent our heroes to the war than to identify their memories with work so beneficent, so far-reaching in its effects on the health and happi- ness of future generations ? As a member of the National Trust, I should also wish to urge that a beautiful viewpoint to com- memorate the heroic dead is a far more enduring monument than either sculptured monument or memorial tablet or window. We have had during this war two such viewpoints given to the keeping of the Trust, one on a moorland by the estuary of the Dee, one on a hill overlooking the battlefield of Sedgemow. Last, may I make the suggestion that instead of trying to inscribe the names of the deed on the walls of our cathedrals or churches, we should take a lesson from France, and urge the Government to prepare a list of the brave men in each county who have fallen, and have these names marked in what is called " The golden book of memory," and allow these books to be suitably enshrined in the cathedral churches of each county? A record in safe keeping in a building hallowed by the memories of the past would thus be handed down to posterity.—I aro, Sir, &c.,
H. D. RAWNSLEY.
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