Professor Graham Wallas We regret to record the death of
Professor Graham Wallas. Though the activities of his seventy-four years of life were many and diverse, Professor Wallas will, perhaps, be primarily remembered for his membership, with Lord and Lady Passfield, of the Fabian Society, to whose Fabian Essays, published in 1889, he made what was possibly the most memorable contribution. lie was for many years Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics. Human Nature in Politics, his finest work, represented his revolt alike from the a priori intellectualism of his own university, Oxford, and from the statistical inhumanities of Cambridge and London. With its insistence on the theory that each man must base his own political philosophy on his personal observa- tion of his fellow men, it introduced a new method of political enquiry. As a lecturer and as a man, Mr. Wallas needs no encomium from us. Though we may never have found ourselves in complete agreement with his political theories, we could never but respect the fervour and integrity of their author,
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