We regret to record the deaths of three distinguished men
whose careers illustrate the comprehensiveness of the British Empire. Mr. Zangwill was as English as any Jew could be while keeping his pride of race. As a man of letters he well represented Jewish intellectualism, and as a Zionist he was a leader in ideals. Mr. Merriman's death in South Africa recalls a long lifetime of public service. The son of a Bishop of Grahamstown, he was always British at heart though plunged into controversies with other equally British South African statesmen. He was a Minister in many Governments and Prime Minister when the South African Party obtained power in 1908. To tell the story of his life would be to tell the history of South Africa for half a century. Sir John Edge was an Irishman, a member of the English Bar, a judge in India, a member of the Royal Com- mission on the South African War and finally of that great bond of Empire, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. * *
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