NEWS OF THE WEEK.
IT is with deep regret that we record the death of the Duke of Devonshire, which took place at Cannes early on Tuesday. The Duke, it will be remembered, suffered from an attack of heart failure last summer. Though he seemed to have regained strength, and though he was able to travel to Egypt, he never completely recovered, and while at Cairo his lungs were affected by pneumonia. The end was, we are glad to say, painless and, in a sense, sudden. We have dealt at length elsewhere with the commanding position attained by the Duke in our public life, a position due in the first place to his high character and devotion to public duty. It must never be forgotten, however, • that this position could not have been maintained had not the Duke been among the wisest of men and possessed of intel- lectual capacity of the highest order. Though it sounds a contradiction in terms, the Duke's intellect was as penetrating as it was slow. The speeches in both Houses of Parliament which expressed the nation's loss in the Duke's death were marked by more than ordinary gravity and depth of con- viction. Lord Rosebery's speech was a masterly effort, and both Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour showed real and deep feeling in their eulogies of the dead statesman.
