Dr. Edward Caird, whose death occurred on Sunday last, after
holding the Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University for twenty-seven years, was appointed Master of Balliol in 1893, retiring owing to ill-health last year. The permanent value of his contributions to the history of philosophy and to the Higher Criticism in theology has often been recognised in these columns, and his choice as Jowett's successor was fully justified during his tenure of a post made doubly arduous by inevitable comparisons. We have also to record the death on October 25th of Professor Lewis Camp- bell, Emeritus Professor of Greek at St. Andrews, the intimate friend and joint biographer of Jowett and Clerk Maxwell, a learned and indefatigable interpreter of the Greek tragedians, and a consistent advocate of comprehension in Church con- troversies and toleration in religious education.
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