By the death of Dr. J. H. Bernard, Provost of
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland has lost one of her greatest sons and one of her most accomplished scholars. In his early days at Trinity College he made his mark in both philo- sophy and mathematics. As a theologian he did as much by reasonableness as by learning to commend the Higher Criticism to many of his colleagues, though Ireland was a less friendly soil for that seed than most other countries. As Archbishop of Dublin he had to steer the Church of Ireland through the terrible Irish days which were contemporaneous with the Great War. He was a member of the Convention in which certain Unionist delegates, among whom he and Lord Midleton were the most powerful, tried hard to keep a united Ireland with a single Parliament. In 1919 he succeeded Sir John Mahaffy as Provost of Trinity. His scholarly edition of Kant, his notes on Butler's Analogy and his Commentaries on the Pastoral Epistles are books that will not soon be forgotten.
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