At Oxford on Wednesday, the Due d'Aumale, Lord Hale. bury,
Mr. Balfour, Professor Jebb, and Sir Donald Stewart were amongst the recipients of honorary degrees. Of these, Mr. Balfour was the most conspicuous, especially as the Regius Professor of Civil Law, who presented each of the honorary doctors to the Vice-Chancellor, proclaimed himself one of his political opponents, though he described Mr. Balfour as an opponent whom his enemies could not but honour as an "adversarius steer, strenuus, promptus, indefessus." But the most interesting part of the ceremonial was Professor Pal. grave's Creweian oration in praise of departed benefactors. He singled out the intellectual rather than the material bene- factors of the University, and devoted his time to the merits of the three great Oxford men who have died within the last year, Canon Liddon, Dean Church, and Cardinal Newman. He dwelt on the fervid oratory of Liddon, the singular modesty, the refined subtlety, the charming humanity of Dean Church, and the religious intensity, the poetic genius, the Attic grace, and inextinguishable youth of Cardinal Newman We shall, we hope, soon have Professor Palgrave's happy monograph on these three great Oxford men in a complete form.
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