Mr James Clark, editor and proprietor of the Christian World, is dead.

Ciro Pinsuti, the popular composer, died suddenly at Florence recently, while playing the piano.

Our exchanges report the death of Mr Geo. Godwin, for more than forty years editor of the Builder.

The death of Mr Samuel Grimwade, senior partner in the firm of Grimwade & Sons, papermakers, is reported.

Mr James Fletcher, of the firm of Robert Fletcher & Sons, Kersley Paper Mills, Manchester, recently died, in his 55th year.

Mr F. A. Magnay, who for many years manufactured the paper for The Times, died on the 24th November, in his 74th year.

Herr Heinrich Völter, papermaker, of Heidenheim, Germany, died on the 13th September. According to some authorities, he was the inventor of paper from wood-pulp.

Mr John Stevenson, for many years engaged in the commercial department of the Wellington Post, died suddenly on the 20th April, from a rupture of a blood-vessel. He had been suffering from asthma for a considerable time.

An English telegram of 16th April records the death of Matthew Arnold, critic and poet, at the age of 66. Owing to the well-earned fame of his father, Dr. Arnold of Rugby, his lines fell in pleasant places, and he was the holder of well-paid appointments in connexion with state education. Neither he nor his brother Edwin inherited the practical qualities of the grand old doctor, being dreamers rather than workers. To Matthew Arnold we owe the phrase « sweetness and light. »