27 MARCH 1920, Page 3

We also deeply regret to record the death on Wednesday

of Mrs. Humphry Ward at the ago of sixty-eight. As the granddaughter of Arnold of Rugby, the daughter of Thomas Arnold. and the niece of Matthew Arnold, she came of a good stock, and. upheld its fine intellectual tradition. She won her fame as a novelist more than thirty years ago by Robert Elan-e, which described in an interesting form the religious unrest of the time. She followed up her success with many other ably. written novels, including David Grieve—perhaps the best of all because it is the most intensely human---and Marcella, which expressed the modern woman's demand for greater freedom. But Mrs. Ward was a great deal more than a novelist. Her abounding energy and public spirit were manifested in all kinds of good works.-