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The statement above submitted bears ample testimony to the qualities of Mr. Harris as a man of business and a financier; and his abilities as stage manager are manifested over and over again in grouping and marshalling large masses of figures, as well as in other scenic arrangements. In his dramas he displays a unique knowledge of stage effect, and a correct judgment of the public taste. He is aware of the people's requirements and supplies them accordingly. As an actor in juvenile tragedy and light comedy, he is invariably finished, graceful, and expressive. In the former the writer lately had a specimen in his interesting impersonation of Icilius (Knowles' "Virginius”), and in the latter as Roderigo (“ Othello"); and he is the best Roderigo we have seen; many actors buffoon the part, Harris represents it as Shakespeare intended it a portraiture of a young Venetian gentleman of the period. Roderigo is a rather weak and irresolute young man, but not quite the snipe many take him to be; they forget with whom he has to deal, a man who outwits all who come within his reach, the cunning devil, Iago. Mr. Harris's performance is consistent throughout. He is also powerful and effective in melodrama; and what he did in "The World" will be remembered.

Although not yet thirty, Mr. Harris looks younger than most men of the same age. He is of middle height, slight, and neatly proportioned, his features mobile-in all he is well cut out for the rôle he assumes. In conclusion, it is to be said, he is a warm-hearted, genial man; pleasing and attractive in his manners; and, as a crowning virtue, he is kind and considerate to all about him.

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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D.,
Dean of Westminster,

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The Order of the Bath.
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THE chaste soul which has just entered into the presence of the Great Judge has left an aching void which it is not possible to fill. We do not purpose in these few lines writing a memoir of Dean Stanley. That has been done already by many loving and appreciative pens; but we desire to place on record one or two personal recollections of the dean-we dare not say late dean, for though he is dead in a sense, he is a thousand-fold more alive than when he occupied the decanal-stall in St. Peter's Collegiate Church-and also to traverse the dictum that he "was neither a profound scholar, nor an eloquent preacher."

When the present Bishop of Lincoln entered his

protest" against Arthur Stanley's installation, no one was more grieved than the gentle spirit who had unwittingly called it forth. Desiring "to live peaceably with all men," and feeling that it was through misunderstanding rather than through misrepresenting his theological opinions that Dr. Wordsworth had been prompted to act, Dr. Stanley was moved even to tears; and had it not have been for his firm faith in his own honesty to the Articles of the Church of England, and an humble belief that he could accomplish some good in Westminster, he would have declined the deanery even at the eleventh hour. He in his turn, however, was one of the earliest to acknowledge Dr. Wordsworth's puissance as a canonist (he is one of the first in Europe); and had the latter not have been so jealous of what he considered was orthodox, the two would have afterwards laboured in the same church with even more amity than they did. Time, however, softened the breach, although it never quite healed the wound; and we even trace a recollection of it in the Bishop of Lincoln's speech in the Upper House of Convocation of the Province of Canterbury, the day after the dean's decease. (Dean Stanley proposed Dr. Wordsworth for the Westminster Archdeaconry). Those who remember that great scholar, William Cureton (who installed the dean, as canon in residence), may call to mind a saying of his to the effect that "Stanley was the only man in the Church of England who was able to make what had hitherto been but a temple of caste a really national institution." How that prophetic utterance has been fulfilled, the last two decades eloquently witness.

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With all his labours, both in the study and in the pulpit, he never forgot the poor, and those who were in need. him the maxim“ Qui dat pauperi non indigebit" had a living meaning; and the box now in the south transept of the Abbey, with the text, " Beatus qui intelligit pauperum," owes its erection to that dean whom the nation is now mourning. As an instance of his helpful generosity, the following, for which we can vouch, is an excellent sample of a thousand like actions. A struggling London litterateur (who had gone to South Wales owing to the exigencies of his position) published some little essay in a provincial paper which pleased the dean, and during their correspondence the writer in question took the opportunity of explaining his circumstances to him. He got no reply for some days; but one

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