We deeply regret the death of the Dean of Westminster,
Bishop Herbert Ryle. The son of the stoutly evangelical Bishop of Liverpool, he was a broad-minded Churchman, whose early distinction was that of profound scholarship in Hebrew, biblical criticism and theology generally. The lives of father and son make one see a gap of a full century between Christian learning and thought here and in Tennessee. The Dean was a scholar of Eton and*King's, like the Dean of St. Paul's, fellow of King's, Hulsean Professor of Divinity and President of Queen's College at Cambridge, before he was made Bishop of Exeter. Thence he was translated to Winchester, where he broke down his health by overwork. Finally he became " Abbot " of Westminster, as he liked to be called, and filled that stately office admirably, making it felt that the Abbey is indeed a centre of the English-speaking races. He is a great loss to the Convocation of Canterbury, and as Chairman of the House of Clergy in the National Assembly he will be most difficult to replace. He always gave an impression of remarkable dignity which never obscured the most warmly sympathetic personality beneath it. * * * *
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