THE LATE LORD REVELSTOKE.
Although business in the City of London may be pri- marily associated with the sordid task of money-making, there is no place where high character and high principles are more clearly recognized and honoured. And although the late Lord Revelstoke may have been kt. less prominent figure in the City than his distinguished brother, John, who died in Paris some five years ago, there was a general recognition of his ability and of his fine character. On more than one occasion in the course of his annual addresses to shareholders of the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution, Lord Revelstoke displayed his deep concern at the lack of international co-operation. Some two years ago when world depression was nearing its depths and international trade was checked by the artificial control of exchanges by the different Governments, he said :
"We see the delicate mechanism of exchange crippled by arbi- trary control. . .. Worse than all, we see standards of honour debased, and good will, the leaven which ought to permeate humanity, slowly perishing ; while distrust, that fear of our neighbour which it is the mission of Christianity to dispel, spreads like a pestilence from day to day."
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