They are there because they are splendid decoration and perfectly appropriate in character.

The real feeling of those who loved the dead man breaks out in the inscription." She pointed to a band below the pectoral, where, in gilt capital letters, was written the two words, "[Greek: ARTEMIDORE EUPsUChI]." "Yes," I said, "it is very dignified and very human." "And so sincere and full of real emotion," she added.

"I find it unspeakably touching.

'O Artemidorus, farewell!' There is the real note of human grief, the sorrow of eternal parting.

How much finer it is than the vulgar boastfulness of the Semitic epitaphs, or our own miserable, insincere make-believe of the 'Not lost but gone before' type.