Virtus in arducis! Valour against odds That must have daunted courage less complete. A spectacle to gladden men, and meet The calm approval of the gazing gods. So some large singer of the heroic days Might well have summed that life the fatal shears Too soon have severed. Many fruitful years, More conquests yet, still wider meed of praise, All hoped of him who had goodwill of all,— The brave, the justly balanced, calmly strong, Friend of all truth, and foe of every wrong, Who now, whilst lingering autumn’s last leaves fall, Too soon! too soon! if the stern stroke of fate Ever too early falls, or falls too late, At least the passing of this stern, strong soul In fullest strength and clearness wakes lament. We could have better spared a hundred loud, Incontinent, blaring flatterers of the crowd Than him, whose self-respecting years were spent In silent thought and sense-directed toil, Ungagged by greed, unshackled and unswayed By sordid impulse of the sophist’s trade, By lies unsnared and unseduced by spoil. No braver conquest o’er ill fortune’s flout Our age has seen than his, who held straight on Though the great God-gift from his days was gone, ‘And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.’ Held on with genial stoutness, seeing more Than men with sight undarkened, but with mind Through prejudice and party bias blind. The ‘foolish fires’ of faction through the flare Betraying beacons, in the battle’s van. _Vale!_ A valid and a valiant man! Ampler horizons and serener air Await the fighter of so good a fight Than favour Party’s low, mist-haunted hollow. Heart-deep regrets and honest plaudits follow Him who has passed from darkness into light. _Punch._ APPENDIX MEMORIALS THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FOR BLIND STUDENTS PLAYGROUNDS, SKATING RINK, BOATS, AND OTHER         ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT FOR THE BLIND MEMORIAL IN VAUXHALL PARK MEMORIAL NEAR CHARING CROSS MEMORIAL IN THE PARISH CHURCH, ALDERBURGH MEMORIAL WINDOW AT TRUMPINGTON MEMORIAL AT SALISBURY To make this record complete the following descriptions of the Fawcett Memorials is appended, together with the copy of a letter from Mrs. Fawcett’s sister. There are three memorials in London, besides others elsewhere.