There life's wide sea is billowless and calm.
Oh! lovely woman! thy consummate worth
Is far above thy frailty—far above
All earthly praise—thou art the light of love!"
Rt.
Warmington.
Burial (Vol. v., pp. 320. 404.).—Mr. Gatty says that a clergyman is inhibited from reading the burial service in unconsecrated ground. Is this so? Irregular as the practice would be, have not other irregularities equally glaring—baptisms, for instance—too often taken place in drawing-rooms? It might not be uninteresting, to have instances given of spots, not consecrated, which have been chosen for burial; as the individuals who selected them have possibly been marked by some peculiarities of character worthy of observation.
Baskerville, the celebrated printer, directed that he should be buried under a windmill near his garden; this direction proceeded, alas! from disbelief in Revelation. A few years previously (viz. in 1772) Mr. Hull, a bencher of the Inner Temple, was buried underneath Leith Hill Tower, in Surrey, which he had erected on that beautiful and commanding spot, shortly before his death.
In the Gentleman's Magazine of last month, we have a curious inscription on a monument, which once existed in a field or garden near Twickenham. Mrs. Joan Whitrow, to whom it was raised, though said to be "favoured with uncommon gifts," appears to have been very crazy.
Was not Mrs. Van Butchell, to whom Mr. Gatty refers, to be seen some years ago in her glass case in the College of Surgeons?