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In wandering through this, the only graveyard in Hampstead, one notices the absence of those doggerel lines and absurd inscriptions once so frequently seen in country churchyards, and which were wont to introduce a sense of the ridiculous into these solemn places. There is still remaining an inscription on a tombstone in the churchyard that for complacent egotism is ludicrously noticeable:

Here lie the Ashes of

MR. JOHN HINDLEY,

Of Stanhope Street, Mayfair, London;

Originally of King Street, Liverpool; who, under peculiar disadvantages,

Which to common minds would have been

A bar to any exertion,

Raised himself from all obscured situations

Of Birth and Fortune by his own Industry and frugality

To the enjoyment of a moderate competency.

He attained a peculiar excellence in penmanship and drawing

Without the Instruction of a Master,

And to eminence in Arithmetic, the useful and higher

Branches of the Mathematics,

By going to School only a year and eight months.

He died a Bachelor