18 FEBRUARY 1911, Page 3

The election of a Professor of Poetry at Oxford in

succession to Mr. blacken took place on Thursday. The President of Magdalen, Mr. Warren, was chosen. He received 174 votes, and Canon Beeching 147. The electors had a very difficult choice, for both candidates were admirably fitted by learning and scholarship to fill the vacant chair. The University is to be congratulated on its embarras des richesses in the region of poetic criticism and interpretation.