We note with sincere regret the death, after a short
illness, of M. de Blowitz, the Paris correspondent of the Times, who had only retired from that post at the New Year. The long obituary notice in Monday's Times gives a truly engrossing account of the carter and personality of this extraordinary man, who, in spite of his race and his insignificant exterior, fought his way to the forefront of a profession which he only adopted at the age of forty-five. A Bohemian Jew by race, a Roman Catholic by religion, and a Frenchman by naturalisa- tion, M. de Blowibz, when all allowance is made for occasional indiscretions, was a faithful friend to the Republic, and a most loyal and brilliant representative of the great paper he served with such inexhai istible energy for the last thirty years. It is noted, and with justice, that he strove consistently to promote peace on the Col ttinent and a closer rapprochement between France and Great Britain. We may add in this context that, to judge from recent telegrams, the publicist who has suc- ceeded M. de Bluwitz at Paris as Times correspondent will be lacking neither in knowledge nor judgment of the great political events with which he will have to deal.
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