It is with great regret that we record the death
of Lord Haldane, which occurred on Sunday. It happens that on another page in a review, written before the news reached us, we say that he will stand out as the greatest Secretary of State for War in our day. His work at the War Office from 1905 to 1912 is certainly the service for which the country owes him its greatest debt. But his services on the Woolsack after a fine career at the Bar were also great. And in all kinds of public work connected with education and intellectual work, like that of the British Academy, he was to the fore at all times. If he was not a great constructive philosopher, he was at any rate one of the foremost British students of philosophy, and helped others to understand its purposes. We have tried in a leading article to set out the value of the man to his country, and here we will only express our sympathy with his brothers and his colleagues in his work and especially with the sister whose long devotion to him he alone can fully appreciate. It is only three years since we pub- lished a delightful article written by that remarkable woman, his mother, shortly before she died.
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