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 reforms which would find a very general welcome among us. Sidney Smith's joke about the duties of Deans and Chapters does but express, rather broadly, the common conviction on the subject: when asked (as being himself a Canon of St. Paul's) "What are the duties of a Dean and Chapter?" he is said to have answered, "To the best of my knowledge the duty of the Dean is to give dinners to the Chapter, and the duty of the Chapter is to dine with the Dean!" But if the Bishop of the Diocese were also Dean of the Cathedral, and the Chapter was a Diocesan Chapter, the duties of each would be obvious enough.