TRIBUTES TO THE MEMORY OF VICTOR BRANSFORD. IV.

The article pays tribute to the late sociologist Victor Bransford. Bransford was a successful lecturer and tutor on academic lines and his endowments for such work unquestionable. He also gave many formal lectures at Le Play House, some of them to sympathetic audiences; but on these occasions he was apt to be restrained, unhappy, unable to express his ideas, sometimes even quite at a loss. In part that lay in the accuracy of his mind-an accuracy that was probably visual at root and appeared in his power of memory, his quick grip of fresh ideas and situations, the clear flow of his own thought. With this went exceptional analytic power, disciplined to a high decree by a training in scientific method; this made it possible for him to sort out, separate and classify with extraordinary rapidity all the material that came within his field. Most important, however, was his sociological system; this was not merely something that he had thought out and made his own; it was Branford; it was so thoroughly and intimately him-like digestion or heart-beat-that in a very real sense he had better not have thought about it, and when he did so, he upset its instantaneous and inevitable working.