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last week has been indeed a sad one for Oxford, and, in a very special degree, for Christ Church. The story is piteously short. On November 16 we heard that Mrs. Paget was laid up with a chill. Though she did not overcome it as quickly as we might have hoped, there was no thought of grave anxiety. But on Tuesday alarming symptoms developed, and, though there was real hope on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning, that these had abated under treatment, they recurred; and the end came peacefully on Thursday afternoon at half-past five.

The position held by the wife of the Dean of Christ Church partakes, naturally, of the extensive variety which belongs to the position of the Dean. The Dean has a diocesan and civic aspect, which often tends to be lost under the shadow of his work as head of a great College. Mrs. Paget—apart from the popularity she had already won as one of the 'Christ Church ladies'—inherited when she came