We record with pleasure another very generous donation made by
Mr. W. W. Astor to the Oxford University Appeal Fund. It may be remembered that Mr. Astor originally subscribed £10,000 to the Fund. He now promises a second donation of £10,000 as soon as the first hundred. thousand pounds has been subscribed. It is a significant, but not, perhaps, a wholly creditable fact that though so many rich men of British birth have been educated at Oxford; the most generous help, with one exception, has been given by one who is not only not an Oxford man, but was not even born a citizen of the British Empire. Mr. Astor is, of course, now a British subject, and, as his very generous gifts to the National Rifle Association and the Spectator Experimental Company showed, is deeply interested in all that conCerns the welfare of his country. It must be admitted, however, that his help to Oxford is especially generous and far-seeing, and that he has undertaken a burden the refusal of which could not possibly have been made a ground of complaint.
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