We note with regret the death, which occurred on Friday
week, of Canon Haig-Brown, Master of the Charterhouse since 1897, and from 1863-1897 Head-Master of Charterhouse. Dr. Haig-Brown, who was chiefly responsible for the move to Godalming, earned the affection of boys and masters alike by his whole-hearted devotion to the great school of which he fairly won the title of the Second Founder. As one of his colleagues wrote of him at the time of his retirement-
" Witty though wise, though stern yet ever kind, A giant's strength with gentleness combined ; So apt with learning simpler charms to blend, We oft forgot the master in the friend."
We also regret to announce the death last Sunday of the Very Rev. Robert Herbert Story, Principal of Glasgow. University, at the age of seventy-two. Principal Story was not, like Principal Rainy, a great leader of controversy, but he was a fine type of the old dignified school of Scotch divines. Minister of the pariah of Roseneath for twenty-seven years, be became known in the Church councils as the champion of new methods in worship, as well as the biographer of William Carstares. life was one of the Royal Chaplains, and, like his friend, Dr. Norman Macleod, was greatly esteemed by the late Queen Victoria. In 1886 he was made Professor of Ecclesiastical History in Glasgow University, and in 1898 he succeeded Dr. Caird as Principal. No more perfect academic Head could well have been found, for be was an excellent business man and a firm disciplinarian, and his magnificent presence gave stateliness to any ceremony.
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