A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 14

A DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR.

• :In _Christ Church Chaptcr-liouH l , Oxford, on October 13, a presentation of a portrait-of himself was made to Canon Sanday,-the Lady Margaret -Professor of. Divinity. - The pioture was /painted ( by Mr. L: Campbell: Taylor,; and: it is generally allowed to be a good liifcrioss,' It isi a three-quarter, :faco view- rind- threequarter Jength figure, seated, down to the knee. There is a dark background, and the Canon is. portrayed wearing his JI.A. gown, lhe Vice-Chancellor, who presided, in making the presentation, said. thoy Wero, proud--'aha fond of Dr. Sanday,-..'Sine of the. most trious workers in 'Bacred'tscholarship. lion;-liv-ing,. recognised .' as suohi'iu every country in Europe, in America-nayj; in .every part; of 'the world .where , suoh things'; are: appreciated and understood." ... . In thanking the gathering Dr.Sanday./reviewed his published - theological work, in the courso of, which lie saidihafc in 1899 was published the- most considerable: of his contribu-' tions to; Hastings's, "Dictionary of the. BibU," the article "Jesus Christ," since reprinted under, thejhtle, v :.Life ; \of Christ, Since the' date' of its. appearance I i t l before, roe. the larger work ! tha\ I hare undertaken on. the same subject/, viii sorry .to say that tliere is as yet I little actually- on paper that islikelv/to' stand in tae.ultimate.composition of the book."' He had found it-necessary to ~attack, the ; work, to some . extent • piecemeal, by a- succession>of sm , a . jolumes~ , 'Sa c red„ Sites ;of ; the.-Gos-pels (1903),-the; New York Lectures on the' fourth Xtospol. (1905), arid' "Recent Research on the Life of Christ" (1307. "I am afraid thero_is still one more volume of th« kindr"u' I, hope .only one—to .come, to be based upon the course of ; public lectures which l am to begin on . Friday. I should warn'you'that they will .be very tentative; but the experiment. was: one' that had to be made. I shall try to. improve the leotures all I can in the process, of: production.. This • will then. leave' menace to 'face, with the one :,ma!a object of the rest of my.days." ' ■