We regret to record the death of Chancellor P. V.
Smith, one of the most learned of our ecclesiastical scholars, at the age of eighty-four. After a brilliant career at Eton and Cambridge, he was called to the Bar in 1869, b A it was not as a practising barrister but as a scholar in e 2chsiastical law, that he excelled. His History of the English Institutions and The Church Handbook are perhaps his best known works. He was an original member of the Canterbury House of Laymen, and in all Church controversies his opinion, from the point of view of Evangelicalism and the Establishment, was respected by. men of all parties. When he was seventy-five he was ordained, by the Bishop of Gloucester. He did not take priest's orders, but assisted regularly in his parish church. He was a strong supporter of .the new system of Church government. * .* *
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