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The Deanery of Exeter being now vacant, we wish the

Govern- ment would give it to Canon Stubbs. He is just the man for a Deanery, and would teach the world far more by means of such books as he could write in the seclusion of the Deanery at Exeter, than he ever will from his Professor's chair or his Canon's stall. Canon Stubbs especially deserves recognition by the Government for the active part which he took in favour of a Christian policy on the Eastern Question.