SCOTT'S EPITAPH AND ITS ORIGIN

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 632, 7 January 1914, Page 3

SCOTT'S EPITAPH AND ITS ORIGIN

Perhaps the most interesting feature of th« January "Life" which is just to hand, is a photograph and an explanation of the origin of the epitaph which was written for the memorial cross to Captain Scott and his fellow heroes). It seems that when Captain Scott was leaving for the South Pole Dr Alexander Leeper. Warden of Trinity College, Melbourne, gave him as a memento a little volume of Browning, in which he wrote the concluding lines from Tennyson's Ulysses: "To strive, to seek, to find, but not to yield." The little volume was discovered in the tent with Captain Scott, and the members of the search party, considering the lineß a most appropriate epitaph, carved them on the cross which stands on Observation Hill. Other interesting article in this excellent number are: "The greatest Business on Earth," in which Frederics Palmer, the war correspnndent, tella how science haß robbed war of its romance: Mr Carlyle Smythe's description of Max O'Rell and his Australian tour; Jack London's great Berial; and a stirring story by Rex Beach, one of - a series of which "Life" has secured the exclusive Australian rights. Once more we gladly advise all readers who wish to keep abreast of the times to get this issue of "Life."