We note with much regret the death in tragic circuit.
stances of Professor Churton Collins, who since 1904 had occupied the Chair of English Literature in the University of Birmingham. Professor Collins, who was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Balliol College, Oxford, was a great scholar, a fine literary critic, and an indefatigable worker in the cause of higher popular education. The range of his reading and the retentiveness of his memory recalled the exploits of Macaulay, whom he also resembled in his com- bination of polemical criticism with personal kindliness. Latterly be had taken an active part in promoting the establishment at the University of Birmingham of a School of Journalism, the national need for which be affirmed in a most weighty and convincing article in a recent issue of the National Review.
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