On November 12, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York, will become Archbishop of Canterbury. Like the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, whom he succeeds, Dr. Lang is a Scotchman; also he is 64, the author of a novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh son, a brilliant though sometimes over-impassioned orator, and suspected of being the leader of that portion of the Church of England which most nearly approaches the Church of Rome. It was this last qualification in the present Archbishop of York which caused members of the League of Loyal Churchmen and the...
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