Professor Edward Caird, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow, and
the author of a book on the philosophy of religion, which we lately reviewed, has been elected Master of Balliol in succession to Professor Jowett. He was once an Exhibitioner of Balliol, but never a Fellow of the College,—he was a Fellow of Merton,—and Lis appointment to be Master of Balliol is naturally a surprise to the world. He is understood to be a philosophical disciple of the late Mr. T. H. Green, and that may have had much to do with his appointment. In any case, he is a man of a reverent as well as subtle and large mind, and his selection does credit both to the impartiality and the taste of the College over which he is to preside. The Prime Minister has filled up the Regius Professorship of Greek, vacant by the death of Professor Jowett, by the appoint- ment of Mr. Ingram Bywater, one of the most accomplished classical scholars in the University of Oxford.
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