Dean Inge Will Visit

The Very Rev. W. R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, will visit the United States after Easter.

The pessimism of his philosophic utterances and the critical attitude which he has assumed toward modern democracy have given the Dean considerable vogue throughout the English-speaking world.

A piquant interest has been added to the prospect of his visit by President Nicholas Murray Butler's controversy with some Methodist ministers. Butler denounced the Eighteenth amendment at a Cleveland dinner. Methodist leaders, assembled at Chicago, rebuked Butler. Whereupon Butler replied through the press by quoting the Dean of St. Paul's: " Suppose the state has exceeded its rights by prohibiting some harmless act, such as the consumption of alcohol. Is smuggling in such a case morally justifiable? I should say, Yes! The interference of the state in such matters is an impertinence ! "

As the Dean of St. Paul's has for 700 years held what is today the sinecure position of " Inspector of Breweries," the gloomy Dean has precedent for regarding prohibition as an " impertinence."