We record with much regret the death of Sir Paul
Vinogradoff, a notable example of the great gains that occasionally come to our open shores. Oxford did well to secure this ex-Russian professor as Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in 1903 when lie settled in England. He was already well known there and at Cambridge, where he had worked with Sir Henry Maine and F. W. Maitland. He was deeply interested and became highly enlightening in questions of English land tenure, from which he tried to deduce lessons that might help his own country with its " Mir " system and resemblances to our Saxon tenure. His hopes for a liberal Russia which at one time he persuaded us to share lay in the Zemstvos and were crushed by the Revolution. Death also robbed us last week of a leading sculptor, Sir Hamo Thorny- croft. His works best known to the public were the statues of Queen Victoria at the Royal Exchange, of Mr. Gladstone in the Strand, of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Rose- bery's gift to the Palace of Westminster, and the very satisfying General Gordon in Trafalgar Square. Outside portrait sculpture he clung to the classical conventions in which his parents brought him up.
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