raight
into our hearts, Antony, and make us all better men. I will tell you a
few of such simple sayings that are better than any more
laboured writings.

On the 30th of June, 1921, in the _Times_ In Memoriam column there
was an entry:--

"To the undying memory of officers, non-commissioned officers and
men of the 9th and 10th battalions of the K.O.Y.L.I.[1] who were killed
in the attack on Fricourt in the first battle of the Somme"; and below it
there were placed these splendid words:--

"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts."

In February of 1913 news reached England of the death, after reaching
the South Pole, of four explorers, Captain Scott, their leader,
among them.

Shortly before the end, Captain Oates, a man of fortune who joined the
expedition from pure love of adventure, knowing that his helplessness
with frozen feet was retarding the desperate march of the others
towards their ship, rose up and stumbled out of the tent into a
raging blizzard, saying, "I dare say I shall be away some time."

This was greatly said. His body was never found; but the rescue party
who afterwards discovered the tent with the others dead in it, put up a
cairn in the desolate waste of snow with this inscription:--

"Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L.E.G. Gates,
Inniskilling Dragoons, who, on their return from the Pole in
March, 1912, willingly walked to his death in a blizzard to try
and save his comrades beset with hardship."

All this was done, said, and written, very nobly by all concerned.

In St. Paul's Cathedral there lies a recumbent effigy of General Gordon,
who gave his life for the honour of England at Khartoum, and upon it
are engraven these words:--

"He gave his strength to the weak, his substance to the poor, his
sympathy to the suffering, his heart to God."

Even the concentrated terseness of Latin cannot surpass these
examples of the power of the simplest and shortest English sentences
to penetrate to the heart.

English can be used, by those who master it as an organ of expression,
to convey deep emotion under perfect control, than which nothing is
more moving, nothing better calculated to refine the mind, nothing
more certain to elevate the character.

Whenever a man has something fine to communicate to his fellow-men
he has but to use English without affectation, honestly and simply, and
he is in possession of the most splendid vehicle of human thought in