freely time and labour. One means by which he has endeavoured to alleviate its condition is by removing the men who earn their living by working in the fields from an overcrowded district to one where labour is more in demand. It is very well known that Canon Girdlestone is a staunch Protestant, and that he has done all in his power to stem the tide of Ritualistic activity, which has shown itself so ready to override all restraint, legal or other. Canon Girdlestone has spoken both at the meetings of the British Association and at those of the Social Science Congress on the condition of the agricultural labourer. His volume of sermons on "Reflected Truth" is well worth perusal.

THE REV. NEWMAN HALL, M.A.,

WAS born in 1816. He studied at Totteridge, at Highbury, and at

London University, where he graduated in 1854. From 1842 to 1854, he was Congregational Minister at Hull, and from 1864 to 1876 he was minister of Rowland Hill's chapel. Since the latter date he has been minister of the beautiful building known as Christ Church in the Westminster Bridge Road. Mr. Hall has preached before the House of Congress of the United States. He is one of the most popular of living preachers and religious authors. Mr. Hall has been a great benefactor of the poor in the neighbourhood of his church. He often preaches in the open air-a custom initiated in 1836.

The following remarks on Mr. Hall are taken from a widely-circulated religious newspaper :

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"Mr. Hall, who is a most eloquent preacher, has acquired some fame as a writer of devotional treatises, one of which, entitled Come to Jesus,' has reached a circulation of upwards of three millions, and has been translated into more than twenty foreign languages. He also engaged in controversy with Professor Maurice upon the subject of Sacrifice, which is perpetuated in a treatise which Mr. Hall afterwards elaborated. other works are a volume of sermons, entitled Homeward Bound,'' The Land of the Forum and the Vatican; or, Thoughts and Sketches during an Easter Pilgrimage to Rome, in 1854;' 'Hints on Preaching,' From Liverpool to St. Louis,' a small volume of poetry, entitled Pilgrim Songs in Cloud and Sunshine,' and a tractate on Prayer its Reasonableness and Efficacy.'

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"Mr. Hall's appearance in the pulpit greatly strengthens the impression which his sermons leave on the minds of his hearers. He has a striking presence, classical features, and a voice at once meilow and strong. It is only on rare occasions that he avails himself in the pulpit of the aid of a manuscript, although his sermons nearly always indicate preparation, although not of a laborious kind.

"Besides these, Mr. Hall is an extensive writer in advocacy of temperance, with which movement he has for many years closely identified himself. The late Captain J. V. Hall, the elder brother of Mr. Hall, was in the merchant navy, and commanded the Great Eastern on her most unfortunate voyage across the Atlantic."

In politics the Rev. Newman Hall is a strong Liberal.

THE RIGHT REV. JOHN JACKSON, D.D.,

BISHOP of London, was born in 1811. He is the son of a London

merchant, the late Mr. Henry Jackson. His lordship studied at Reading School, when the late Dr. Valpy was in the zenith of his fame. His University career was not undistinguished, for, in addition to taking First-class honours in his Final Schools, he won the Denyer Theological Prize. He graduated in 1833. After his academical career was completed he embraced the scholastic, that sure source of preferment to so many of the clergy, and from 1836 to 1846 was Head Master of the Proprietary School, Islington. He has been in succession Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, Canon of Bristol, and Bishop of Lincoln. In 1869 he was translated to the See of London, in succession to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, who had just been promoted to the Primacy. Bishop Jackson is a Chaplain to her Majesty. He has been in four years a Select Preacher before the University of Oxford, and has also preached the Boyle Lectures. He is the author among other things of a pamphlet which has been much appreciated by the religious portion of the community, on "The Sinfulness of Little Sins." Bishop Jackson has recently come under the chastening hand of the Church Association, which has esteemed him unduly partial to Ritualists.

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THE RIGHT REV. WILLIAM BASIL TICKELL JONES, D.D., BISHOP of St. David's, was born in 1822. His father was the late William Tilsey Jones Esq., of Gywnfryn, Cardiganshre, by Jane, daughter of the late Henry Tickell Esq., of Leytonstone, Essex. studied at Shrewsbury School and at Trinity College, Oxford, where his University career was distinguished. He graduated in 1844. He held various academical posts. He became in 1859 Prebendary of St. David's, and Incumbent of Haxby, Yorkshire, in 1863 a Prebendary of York, in 1865 Vicar of Bishopsthorpe, in 1867 Archdeacon of the West Riding, in 1871 Chancellor of the Diocese of York, and in 1874 he was appointed Bishop of St. David's in succession to Dr. Thirlwall, who had resigned. For many years Bishop Basil Jones was examining Chaplain to the Archbishop of York. Among his works we may mention: "Vestiges of Gael in Gwynedd;" The History and Antiquities of St. David's;" "Notes on the Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; and "The Peace of God, Sermons on the Reconciliation of God and Man." He married Frances Charlotte, younger daughter of the late Rev. Samuel Holworthy, Rector of Croxall, Derbyshire.

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THE REV. BENJAMIN JOWETT, M.A.,

WAS born in 1817. He studied at St. Paul's School and at Balliol

College, Oxford, of which College he was successively Scholar and Fellow. From 1842 to 1870 he was Tutor of Balliol. He has been Master of that learned society since 1871. In 1855 he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek, and in 1882 was elected to the Vice-Chancellorship of the University of Oxford. As an author Dr. Jowett is best known by his translation of the dialogues of Plato.

It may be mentioned that the honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon the master of Balliol in 1875. He is undoubtedly one of the greatest Greek scholars of the age. He is, moreover, identified to a large extent with the extreme section of those in the Church of England who hold latitudinarian opinions, and who are known in the aggregate, so far as there can be said to be an aggregate, as the Broad Church party. Moreover, a very large number of the rising men of the day are indebted for the direction of their academical life in a large measure to him. There can be little doubt that the translator of Plato is among the most interesting personalities of our time.

THE REV. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY, D.D.,

CANON of Ely, was born in 1804, at Summer Hill, near Birmingham. His father was the Rev. Rann Kennedy, incumbent of St. Paul's, Birmingham, and Second Master at the Birmingham Grammar School. He studied, as a boy, at the School of which his father was Master, and at Shrewsbury School. Entering St. John's College, Cambridge, his University career was a distinguished one. He gained the Porson Prize; three times the Browne's Medal for a Latin Ode; twice the Pitt University Scholarship; and the Browne Medal for the Greek Ode. He was Senior Classic and Senior Chancellor's Medallist, and gained the Member's prize for a Latin Essay: "De Origine Scripturæ Alphabeticæ." He graduated in 1827, and became Feliow and Classical Lecturer of St. John's in 1828. Having held a subordinate appointment at Harrow, he became in 1836, Head Master at Shrewsbury. In 1866 he resigned the Head Mastership of Shrewsbury School on his being appointed Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Cambridge, and Canon of Ely. Among his works may be mentioned: "The Psalter in English verse; ""The Public School Latin Grammar; "The Birds of Aristophanes, translated into English verse; Virgil," a school edition; "Between Whiles; ""Occasional Sermons preached in the University of Cambridge, with an Appendix of Hymns; "The Agamemnon of Eschylus, with Poetic Translation; "The Theætetus of Plato, with Translation; ""The Edipus of Sophocles, with Poetic Translation;" 'Ely Lectures on the Revised Translation of the New Testament;' "Palestra Latina;" and "Tirocinium." Dr. Kennedy has now reached the venerable age of eighty; but, thanks to a splendid constitution, he bears his years well.

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THE VERY REV. GEORGE W. KITCHIN, D.D.,

DEAN of Winchester, was born in 1827. He studied at Ipswich and King's College Schools and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1850, taking a Double First Class. From 1861 to 1883 he was First Tutor and Censor of Christ Church, and afterwards History Lecturer and Tutor. His lectures were much enjoyed by those who had the privilege of listening to them. As Dr. Kitchin is deservedly popular, his appointment to the Deanery of Winchester in 1883, met with the approval of all educated Englishmen.

Dr Kitchin has written several translations of French and German works: Brachet's Historical Grammar and Dictionary, and partly Ranke's History of England. He also edited Bacon's "Novum Organum," and Spenser's "Fairie Queen." I. and II., and is the author of a " History of France down to the Revolution," 3 vols. ; of a "Life of Pius II.," and of "Articles on France," &c. in the Encylopædia Britannica. Dr. Kitchin's literary work is universally recognised as being the outcome of conscientious and thorough-going research, and has obtained a wide popularity also, because he is the master of a singularly graceful and polished style. He is one of the few men who can translate at sight a foreign author into polished and literary English.

THE REV. WILLIAM LANDELS, D.D.,

WAS born at Exmouth, in Berwickshire, in 1823. He is therefore now

some sixty years of age. Dr. Landels owed little to external advantages in his youth; and the story of his early years would furnish a touching and impressive example of the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. Having been converted to Christ in his youth among the Presbyterians, he felt himself called by God to devote himself to the ministry, and became a student under the Rev. Dr. James Morison, formerly of Kilmarnock, but more recently of Glasgow. It was, we believe, before the close of his curriculum at the Theological Hall in Kilmarnock that he was convinced of the Scripturalness of the position of the Baptists, and at once identified himself with that body, of which he has since become such a conspicuous ornament.

He was first in a pastoral charge at Cupar-Fife, then he moved to Circus Chapel, Birmingham, where he was very successful. From 1855 to 1883 he was minister of the Regent's Park Baptist Chapel, of which church the late Sir Robert Lusk was a deacon. In 1876 he was chosen President of the Baptist Union. In 1883 he moved to Edinburgh. His brethren in the ministry in the spring of 1877 presented Dr. Landels with a testimonial expressive of their gratitude for his self-denying and most arduous labours in their behalf

THE VERY REV. H. G. LIDDELL, D.D.,

DEAN of Christchurch, Oxford, was born in 1811. He studied at the Charterhouse and at Christchurch, Oxford, where he graduated in 1833. He has been Tutor and Censor of Christchurch, Proctor and Public Examiner at Oxford. For some time he was Head Master of Westminster School. Since 1855 he has been Dean of Christchurch. Dean Liddell is also Chaplain Extraordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, and was joint author of "Liddell and Scott's Greek Lexicon." He has also written a valuabie historical work, "A History of Rome." As head of Christ Church it is almost needless to say that Dean Liddell has had to superintend the education of some of our princes and very many of our nobility and landed aristocracy. Of a dignified and commanding person, of great learning and of not aggressive theological opinion, he is eminently qualified to preside over the academical institution which has been the university residence of so many of the leading public men of England. The only rival of Christ Church, Oxford, in its peculiar educational field is Trinity College, Cambridge.

THE REV. HENRY PARRY LIDDON, D.D., D.C.L., CANON of St. Paul's, was born in 1829. He studied at Christ Church,

Oxford, where he graduated in 1856. The dates of his various appointments are as follow:-1854-59 Vice-Principal of Cuddesden: 1864, Prebendary of Salisbury; 1863-65, 1870-72, 1877-79, Select Preacher at Oxford; 1866, Bampton Lecturer; 1870, Canon; 1870-82, Ireland Professor of Holy Scripture. Canon Liddon has written much, and is one of the most eloquent preachers of the time. Among his published works are "The Divinity of Jesus Christ;" "Walter Kerr Hamilton, Bishop of Salisbury; "Some Elements of Religion;" Lent Lectures,' a Report of the Proceedings at the Reunion Conference held at Bonn, between the 10th and 16th of August, 1875. Translated from the German of Professor Reusch. With a Preface by H. P. Liddon, D.D." Slender in figure, with a face on which study and earnest thought have traced lines fraught with eloquent meaning, Dr. Liddon is a remarkable and striking personage in the pulpit, and he holds the audience happy to hear him enthralled by the power of his soul-stirring eloquence.

THE RIGHT REV. JOSEPH BARBER LIGHTFOOT,
D.D., D.C.L., LL.D.,

WAS born in 1828. Having studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1851, he was ordained priest in 1858, having previously been elected Fellow of his College. Dr. Lightfoot has held various distinguished posts in the University of Cambridge, and in the Church, and in 1879 he was appointed to the Bishopric of Durham.