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progress of the good work started by her father. She recently paid a visit to the establishment.

One cannot close this rapid glance at some of the men who have done so much for our cheap literature without an expression of gratitude to them for having served their generation faithfully and well.

FIRST GENTLEMAN OF COLOUR TO RECEIVE KNIGHTHOOD.

The Daily Telegraph of February 1st, 1902, records the death 1902, Feb. 8. of Sir William Conrad Reeves, who was the first gentleman of First colour to receive the distinction of Knighthood and to occupy gentleman of the position of a British Chief Justice. He was, according to

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��' Whitaker's Peerage,' born in 1841, and married, in 1868, Margaret, Knighthood. nee Rudder. In early life he came from the Barbados to England, entered the Middle Temple, was called in 1863, and after returning to the West Indies practised for some time at the Bar. He became Attorney-General in St. Vincent in 1867, was appointed Q.C. in 1883, in 1886 was made Chief Justice of Barbados, and in 1889 received the honour of Knighthood.

CHARLES KENT,

Charles Kent, an old contributor to ' N. & Q.,' who died on 1902, March 8. the 23rd of February, 1902, was born in London on the 3rd of Charles Kent, November, 1823, and was the son of William Kent, R.N., who was "Eight born at the old Government House, Sydney, on December 23rd, friend and^ 1799. At the early age of twenty-two Charles Kent became editor gen of The Sun evening newspaper, and from 1874 to 1881 he edited The Weekly Register. He was a contributor to the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' and ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' and was an authority on the works of Leigh Hunt, Lytton, and Charles Dickens. In ' N. & Q.' for September 4th, 1875, he wrote an interesting reply to Mr. Townshend Mayer in reference to Lord Lytton's introduction of several of his contemporaries into his ' King Arthur.' Kent's long life was devoted to literature, and in recognition of his services a Civil List pension of 100Z. a year was conferred upon him. He was one of the most lovable of men, and the inscription he caused to be placed on Leigh Hunt's tomb might well find a place on his " Write me as one who loves his fellow-men." We who knew him say of him, as Leigh Hunt said, " Right friend and gentleman."

'THE SUN.'

It is curious that at the present time [March 2nd, 1907] there 1907, March 2. should be only one paper in the United Kingdom bearing the title The Sun of Sun, and that a weekly journal. The Sun is an historical title among newspapers on account of the evening paper of that name

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