Sir Richard Jebb, who died at Cambridge last Saturday, after
a short illness originally contracted in South Africa, had combined a career of exceptional academic brilliance with solid services to the cause of education. He was much more than a great classical scholar, a great Hellenist, or a great humanist ; he vindicated the claims of Greek culture to be regarded as a formative element in the building up of national character. His "curious felicity" in the composition of Greek prose and verse went hand-in-hand with a consummate mastery of the vernacular, and his achievements as an orator and publicist afforded a standing disproof of the view that a classical education conduces to inefficiency. As Mr. Blakeney reminds us in his interesting letter to Thursday's Times, Tennyson dedicated his " Demeter " to Sir Richard Jebb, and, like Browning, set the highest value on his work as scholar and critic. Sir Richard Jebb, who held the post of Professor of Greek at Glasgow from 1875 to 1889, and at Cambridge ever since that year, had represented the latter University in the House of Commons with great distinction since 1891.
Bank Rate, 4 per cent. Console (2i. per cent.) were ou Friday 89.
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