12 MAY 1928, Page 3

We regret to record the death of Mr. Barry Pain,

at the age of sixty-three. Cambridge men of the early 'nineties will recall their delight and sense of proprietor. ship in the discovery of an authentic new humorist when In a Canadian Canoe appeared serially in the (manta. Mr. Pain was never false to that beginning. He was always a scholar and a conscientious artist, and for our part we think that though he . certainly won much esteem, his art, even so, was underrated. The Eliza series are true English comedy. There is no over- laying of the intense sympathy of an author whose laughter was never far removed from the lachrymae rerum.