1 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 31

THE LATE PADRE JACQUES ISSAVERDENS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "8PECTLTOR.1

Sin,-Will you kindly insert this letter to say that Padre Jacques L3saverdens, the courteous and learned Armenian Father, known to so many English who have visited the convent on the island of San Lazzaro at Venice, died at Asolo on September 4th, aged seventy, after an operation, and two years of great suffering? It is not likely that his friends in England can otherwise hear of the sad event.— I am,