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the title of Baron. Since 1878, the Baron has laid down his office of Managing Director of Reuter's Telegram Company, but still retains a seat on the Board of its Directors. Baron Reuter has greatly attracted the attention of the political world, through a concession granted to him, in 1872, by the Shah of Persia. In virtue of this concession. Baron Reuter has the exclusive privilege of constructing railways, working mines and forests, and making use of all the other natural resources of that country, besides farming the customs. This immense monopoly which Baron Reuter endeavoured to render subservient to British interests—without, however, excluding other nations, met with difficulties through certain intrigues; these, however, he expects to remove, as Her Majesty's Government has interposed in his favour.

REYNOLDS, The Rev. Henry Robert, D.D., son of the Rev. John Reynolds, of Romsey, and grandson of Dr. Henry Revell Reynolds, physician in ordinary to George III., was born at Romsey, Hampshire, Feb. 26, 1825, and educated at Coward College and at University College, London. He graduated B.A. in 1844, obtained the University Scholarship in Mathematics; was elected a Fellow of University College in 1848, and received the degree of D.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1869. He was appointed Minister of the Congregational Church at Halstead, in Essex, in 1816; removed to Leeds and became Minister of the East Parade Congregational Church in that town in 1849; was appointed President of the Countess of Huntingdon's College at Cheshunt in 1860, and also Professor of Theology and Exegesis. Dr. Reynolds was one of the editors of the British Quarterly Review from 1866 to 1874. He was the editor of and contributor to two series of essays on Church problems, entitled "Ecclesia," in 1869 and 1870; is author of "Beginnings of the Divine Life," and "Notes of the Christian Life;" joint author of "Yes and No; or, Glimpses of the Great Conflict;" and joint editor of "Psalms and Hymns for Christian Worship." In 1874 he published, as the second of the new series of "Congregational Union Lectures," a work entitled "John the Baptist: a contribution to Christian Evidences." He is author of numerous articles in the "Dictionary of Christian. Biography," vol. II., and in the first series of the "Expositor " in 1881—a work entitled "The Philosophy of Prayer and other Essays."

RHYS, John, M.A., born June 21, 1840, at Abercaero, near Ponterwyd, Cardiganshire, was educated at village schools near home; served a pupil teacher's apprenticeship at Penllwyn British School near Aberystwyth from August, 1855, to the end of 1859; was trained at Bangor Normal College to be a public elementary schoolmaster in 1860; and had charge of a school in Anglesey till the end of 1860. He matriculated as a commoner of Jesus College, Oxford, at Michaelmas, 1865, and commenced residence in 1866; read for the classical school and was placed in the second class in Moderations. Subsequently he was placed in the first class in finals at the end of 1869, and was the same week elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He also attended lectures at intervals from 1868 to 1870 at the Sorbonne, the Collége de France, and the University of Heidelberg. In 1870 he matriculated at Leipzig, and read under Professors Curtius, Ritschl, Leskien, and Brockhaus. In 1871 he matriculated at Göttingen, but soon afterwards returned, having been appointed Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools for the counties of Flint and Denbigh in May, 1871. He was appointed Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford