house, R.A., who was a pioneer in architecture, Paul Waterhouse followed in his footsteps. His best-known buildings are the science laboratories at Oxford, Manchester, and Leeds Universities, and University College Hospital Medical School and Nurses' Home in London. He also did a great deal of work for insurance companies and banks. In 1921-23 he was president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. 20. John Harvey Murphy, K.C., aged 62, belonged to a legal family. From the Benedictine School at Downside he went to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and in due course was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple. After practising on the South-Eastern Circuit, Murphy became principal reporter to The Times in the Probate and Divorce Court, a post he held until 1909. In 1920 he took silk. Apart from law, Murphy was a keen student of the drama. John William North, hon. retired A.R.A, whose age was 83, was a landscape painter of singular charm, though little known to the general public. His earlier work consisted of woodcut illustrations to various journals and books, until he attracted the attention of Sir Hubert von Herkomer. In 1893 he was elected A.R.A. North's best-known works are "The Winter Sun," purchased by the Chantrey Trustees, "Sweet Meadow Waters of the West," acquired by the City of Birmingham, the "Pear-Tree," and "A Gipsy Encampment" (Victoria and Albert Museum). North was deeply interested in legal and administrative matters, especially land reform, game laws, and taxation. He was a member of the Royal Society in Water-Colours, of the Royal West of England Academy, and an hon. member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Water-Colours. Sir George William Buchanan, Bt., whose age was 70, was the son of Sir William Buchanan, a former British Minister and Ambassador. From Wellington College he entered the Diplomatic Service, becoming attaché in 1875. He served in that capacity at Vienna, Rome, Tokyo, and then was Second Secretary at Berne. In 1893 he was Chargé d'Affaires at Darmstadt, then acted as British Agent to the Tribunal of Arbitration between Great Britain and the United States, in 1898, in reference to the Venezuela boundary. After a period as Secretary of Embassy at Rome and Berlin, he was appointed Agent and Consul-General in Bulgaria in 1903. The Balkans gave him his opportunity to show his ability, so that soon after the crisis provoked by the Turkish Revolution (1908), he was sent to the Hague, whence he was promoted Ambassador to Russia in 1910. His task here was no easy one even before the outbreak of the Great War, but during its progress it became increasingly difficult amidst the conflicting forces that struggled for mastery in the government of Russia. His failure to direct the Tsar into channels of reform hastened the tragedy of the revolution with all its dire consequences for Russia and the world. Within two months after Lenin had established the Bolshevist despotism, Sir George left Petrograd to be appointed in 1919 to Rome, but retired from the Service in the autumn of 1921. Sir George was a member of the Privy Council, a G.C. B., G. C.M.G., and G.C.V.O. 23. Thomas William Hodgson Crosland, aged 56, was a journalist and poet who quite frequently debased his undoubted talents by violence and impertinence. After contributing to various newspapers and magazines in Yorkshire and London, he became assistant editor of the Outlook from 1899 to 1902, editor of the English Review in 1905, and assistant editor of the Academy in 1908. Crosland's disposition brought him into conflict with many public men and involved him in a great deal of expensive and futile litigation. 26. George Downing Liveing, Sc.D., F.R.S., aged 97, entered St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1847, and was 11th Wrangler in 1850, He then read Natural Science and was first on the list in the first examination for this tripos. After a short period in Berlin, he became a Fellow of his College in 1853 and soon after also a lecturer in Natural Science, the first man to teach science experimentally in Cambridge. In 1860 he was appointed Professor of Chemistry at the Staff College and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, but returned as Professor to Cambridge and began his long tenure-forty-seven years-of the Chair of Chemistry. Devoting himself zealously to his work, Liveing gradually built up a great school of chemistry, adding new laboratories, lecture rooms, etc. His own researches were mainly in spectroscopic analysis, for the most part in conjunction with his colleague, Dewar, the Jacksonian Professor. Liveing resigned his Chair in 1908 at the age of 81. He was elected an F.R.S. in 1879, and in 1901 the Society awarded him the Davy Medal. For many years Dr. Liveing was President of St. John's College. 27. Léon Bakst, aged 58, Russian theatrical designer and colourist, attained an international reputation. He was of Jewish parentage, educated at St. Petersburg and Paris, and quickly came to the front in his profession. Bakst staged many plays, etc., in London, which were received with great enthusiasm. William Archer, dramatic critic, journalist, and author, was 68 years old. Graduating at Edinburgh University, he joined the staff of the Edinburgh Evening News as a leader writer. He then travelled for some time and finally settled in London as dramatic critic of the World, in 1884, a post he held for twenty years. His fame, however, rests upon his translations of Ibsen's plays which he began in 1880 and which influenced the development of the modern drama in England so profoundly. In addition to this Archer wrote "Masks and Faces." a study in the psychology of acting, a book on Play-making," etc. His own plays, War is War and The Great Goddess, had but a moderate success. He utilised his keen analytical powers to investigate the events immediately before the outbreak of the war in a book entitled "The Thirteen Days." 29. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler, the Swiss poet, whose age was 79, studied law and theology at the University of Bâle, but later turned his attention to literature. He finished his first great work whilst living as a tutor in Russia. This was an epic entitled "Prometheus," which won him no recognition. He then worked for some years as a journalist until he inherited a small independence which enabled him to live his own life. "Der Olympische Frühling," another epic, w s his next notable work. In 1919 he received the Nobel prize for literature. At the outbreak of the wa, he publicly and outspokenly condemned Germany for her violation of Belgian neutrality. INDEX. The figures between [ ] refer to PART I. [Speeches in Parliament are entered under their subjects under the heading - Adm. Sir W. A. D., Obit., 148 ACTON, Lord, Obit.. 134 ADDISON, Dr. C., " Politics from With- ADVERTISING Clubs of the World, Con- trict, insurrection, [250]. conferred, [277]. SMIT, J. S., Organisation Society, wound up, 12 AHMED Hassanein Bey, awarded the AIRSHIP Z.R. 3, at Lakehurst, 14 [220]; flight, [220]. FAN Noli, ALBERT Hall, meetings, [2], [50], [128] Fund, The," 9 ALIEN immigrants, number of, [125] ALLEN, P. S., President of Corpus AMERICAN Bar Association, members ANDREWS, Rt. Hon. W. D., Obit., 149 APPLEGARTH, R., Obit., 136 posed, [255]. Ali, proclaimed ART. Retrospect of: CHANTREY Collection, 62. MAGNASCO Society, ARTHUR, Sir G., "The Life of Lord "ARTIST'S London, The," 24 ASQUITH, Rt. Hon. H. H., at the National Liberal Club, [1]; Trade Treity with, [306], [316]. Australia, election, general, BABELON, E., Obit., 109 BAILHACHE, Mr. Justice, Obit., 87, 140 9 G. F., gift to Harvard University, BAKST, L., Obit., 152 [9], 2; policy, [11], [113], [114], BANK of England, rebuilding com- BARING, Hon. M., "C," 27; "Punch BARING-GOULD, Rev. S., Obit., 108 BARRIE, Sir J. M., " Mary Rose," 25 BATHER, Dr. F. A., Keeper of Geology BAYLISS, Sir W. M., Obit., 139 BAYREUTH Musical Festival, revival of, 11 BIDGEBURY, national pinetum at, 9 1924.] INDEX. BEEBE, W., "Galapagos," 23 on, [226]. M., interview with R. MacDonald, BELL, E., Obit., 144 F. J., Obit., 124 Sir J. C., Obit., 114 W. G., "The Great Plague in BENN, E., "Ernest Gimson," 24; BENNETT, A., "Elsie and the Child," 27 27; BENSON, Dr. A. C., "Chris Gascoyne," BICKNELL, P. F., "The Life of Fabre," BILLS.-AGRICULTURAL Wages, [62], [81]. Auxiliary Air Force, [55]. 12 - BRADLEY, F. H., Obit., 141 BREAD, price of, 10, 12, 13 J. S. C., " History of France BRISTOL General Hospital, gift to, 14 8; Empire Exhibition, opened, [44], Film Industry, 66 Medical Association, at Brad- Museum, appointments, 4; col- BROWN, J., High Commissioner at BROWNE, G. W., elected President of |