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Show u Mlsiirlfc Estate or. Market Tho Stoke Park estate, once tho homo of tho Pcnns, has been placed on tho market. On this property Is n monument put up. by John Penn In memory of tho poet Gray. On thrco sides nro quotations from the Elegy, on the' fourth Is nn Inscription saying that the stone was erected In 1700 "among the scenery celebrated by tho great Lyric and Elegiac Poet," and thnt bo "lies unnoticed In tho ndjolnlng churchyard under tho tombstono on which he piously nnd pathetically recorded re-corded tho Interment of his nunt nnd lamented mother." Tho hope Is expressed ex-pressed that tho property will not fall Into hands thnt will permit this monument, monu-ment, "which In n senso has become historic, to fall Into ruin." London Times. |