The present Bishop of Peterborough (Dr. Mandell Creighton) is to
be the new Bishop of London. So far as the London bishopric goes, it is an excellent appointment. Dr. Creighton is only fifty-one, a man of considerable power and humour, and likely to be very popular with his clergy, as well as fully equal to the great administrative work which lies before him. Unfortunately, however, that work is so great that it can hardly leave him the least possible leisure for the studies in which he has already so greatly distinguished himself. He is a considerable historian, and we can never see with absolute satisfaction the merging of a great student in purely practical work, however important. Would it not have been better, even for the Church of Eng- land, if the late Dr. Lightfoot had declined the See of Durham and completed his investigations into the criticism of the Bible P The administrative powers necessary for the due conduct of even such a See as London are hardly so rare as the gifts needful for such a work as Dr. Creighton's history of the Popes of the Reformation epoch. His place at Peterborough is to be filled by the Hon. Edward Carr Glyn, vicar of Ken- sington, who was born in 1843, and is therefore fifty-three years of age. He is believed to be a mild Evangelical, and his appointment will gratify the Evangelical section of the national Church.
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