Our present purpose, however, is to call attention to a hint
thrown out not only in the following Note addressed to ourselves
(which, be it observed, has been in type for several weeks), but
also in the pages of our learned and able contemporary the
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE, in an article from which we extract the most
important passage, namely, that in the event of the failure of the
projected Caxton Memorial, the funds subscribed might with
propriety and good effect be applied (the consent of the
subscribers being of course first obtained) to an object with
which Caxton himself would so surely have sympathised, namely, the
restoration of the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer:
_Chaucer and Caxton._--"Not half" of the required 100_l._ "has yet been
subscribed" for the restoration of Chaucer's monument. Chaucer was an
especial favourite of Caxton; and as the first English printer seems for
awhile destined to remain without "light and fountain," as once upon a
time suggested by Dr. Milman, treasurer of the Caxton fund, possibly the
subscribers to that fund would not object to the transmission of the sum
required by the old monument of the poet, from the no monument of the
printer? Will the Dean of St. Paul's ask for suffrages on the matter?