We greatly regret to record the death on Monday of
Mr. G. W. E. Russell at the age of sixty-six. The son of Lord Charles Russell, who was Serjeant-at-Arms, and the nephew of Lord John, afterwards Earl, Russell, he was bred to politics in the old Whig school. But though he sat in two Parliaments and held minor dam in Mr. Gladstone's second and third Ministries, Mr. Russell oared far less for politics than for Literature and the Churoh. He had few rivals and no superior as a good talker, and he made hosts of friends outside his own wide circle by his genial and witty books of reminiscences, such as A Londoner's Log Book and Collections and Recodlections. A devout Church- man of the school of Liddon, he gave much of his time to religious work as a lay preacher, and wrote two admirable little books or Bishop King, and on the Evangelicalism which he kn-rw in his youth. Mr. Russell was an old contributor to the Spectator.
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