20 DECEMBER 1902, Page 3

We regret to record the continued serious illness of the

Archbishop of Canterbury. We trust that there is still some chance of improvement, but the latest bulletins seem to render hopes of any such change very faint. The age of Dr. Temple and the unsparing way in which he has sacrificed himself to his work for the last thirty or forty years do not allow, we fear, much margin for recuperation. It is needless to say that the sympathy of the nation is very deep, for no man in our public life is more respected. His sagacity, sympathy, and kindliness have never been impaired by his bluntness and downrightness of mind and manner.