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Dr. Milman, the Dean of St. Paul's, and author of

the scholarly, liberal, and wise, though it may be to some extent colourless, his- tories of the Jews, and of Christianity, is dead, after a serious illness of about a week. He died, we believe, at Sunninghill. He was something of a poet as well as a scholar, and there was at times a vivid poetical touch in his historical pictures. But his poetical feeling was rather tender and delicate than vigorous, and the fault of his histories was a certain elegant neutrality of tone which some- times robbed them of force. His loss will be felt severely by the most scholarly and liberal school in the Church, to which he steadily, and often very courageously, adhered.

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