The announcement of the bestowal of the K.C.V.0, on Dean Inge among the honours for the successful restoration of St, Paul's reminds ade of the versatile clerical jour.
that he holds—and brilliantly discharges—the important office of Dean of St. Paul's, In that capacity he has had thrown on him a great part of the administrative responsibility for the work of reconstruc: tion. Dean Inge, by virtue of his frank adoption of modern journal-Jistic methods for attracting notice has earned for himself a label which is mo more accurate than others of its kind. If there are people who demur to his evident liking for the columns of the popular press, they must "admit that he widds discriminately a powerful influence and has contributed fearlessly. to the maintenance of sane judgment on present-day tendencies, He is really not a gloomy observer of the ein rents of English life, He is rather an optimist who refuses to admit that decadence must be accepted as inevitable and cannot be cured by unvarnished exposure of its foibles. In his way. he recalls the methods of that other terrible Dean—of St.
Dublin—who castigated his age and contributed imperishably to English literature in the course of the adventure, Tientsin's New Brigadier
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