30 MARCH 1901, Page 15

THE QUEEN'S MEMORIAL.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—In Sir W. Harcourt's speech at the Mansion House he said: "He hardly knew one [monument] in the great Metro- polis which was deserving either of the greatness of the Empire or the greatness of the City." May I remind Sir W. Harcourt and others that St. Paul's contains en exquisite piece of work in Alfred Stevens's grand Wellington Monu- ment P Could not the Scaliger monuments at Verona be taken as a test upon which to build our Queen's Memorial P-