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now that VI. Theirs is dead. Public opin-
ion distinctly points to him as the future
President of a Conservative Republic. 1t
is q pity that the coming man is rot
known better, not merely here, but also
in France. He is, it is true. much esteem
ed by all who are acquainted with him.
He has long been marked out by his
friends for the highest political Offices. But
his fame does not visibly extend much
outside Paris. always excepting lis own
Department Of the Jura, which has never
failed since 1S4s to return him as
its favourite Deputy by large ma
%jorities. He has not earned The ordinary
penalties or rewards of great popular ce.
lsbrity. His portrait is not on match or
bonbon boxes. You do not 6nd him
sketched in the portraits intimes Of PUBLIC
men which the French are so fond OF pub
fishing. We do not know whether NJ. de
Nirecourt, who has written the lives OF
most of his contemporaries, from Lo'a
Monies to the Marshal President, with
mixed feelings on their part, has Included
III. 0revy in his endless SCI les. And yet
he is not ar Il a new man. He is Que of
the oldest of the present race Of statesmen.
He took part in the Revolution OF 1880,
a, d was a dis ingnished advocate in Louis
Pt iIippe's reign. When 1915 came, he
was in the front rank, and was deemed
worthy of being made Vice-President of
the Assembly and membero OF the Commit
tee OF Justice. He was a power in the
Republic of that time, but not u sufficient
arr fnr hn1 hjc vni0o hoan HSfopoH IN
when he proposed. with clear foresight Of
The perils ahead, that the President snouId
be removable Ivy the Assembly, the coup
d'et0t might have been averted. When it
came. he Quilted politics in disgust, a d
refused to make any terms with the En-
pire, of which he was the most uncomp o
missing, though not the most violent enc
my. In the interval between 1851 and
1868, he laboured at his profession, and
lose to be Bdtonnier of tie Bar. Ia the
latter year he was returned as Deputy to
the Corps Leglslatit, and. again he pursued
u policy Of calm but Underwriting resistance
to the Empire, disdaining to take part or
lot in the supple Liberalism of NJ. Olivier,
and refusing 10 be convinced by the argu-
ments OF NJ. Theirs that the Empire hav-
ing granted "the necessary liberties" its
opponents might sink their differences and
accept it as inevitable. When the Empire
fell. aud the Bordeaux Assembly met, the
choice of President tell on n. Grevy.
Let US add 10 this creditabIe, if not re-
markably brilliant record of honest, con-
sistent work that he is an able and etfec-
tive spt aker !; that he is an nutho:, as well
as orator ; that Office mas been often with
in his reach /; and it will be acknowledged
that if n. Grevy's name is not a household
word-that if it is not one of those names
which common people use as shorthand.
~symbollcal expressions of principles-it is
not because he has not been much before
the world.
The explanation is that he is Of the
stamp Of man who influences men of in
huence. His talents are not of the OBJ
ttusive or conspicuous character which
sway Q crowd. He is an admirable speak,
sr,saaccording to English notions-neat.
ppesis4, pointed, and effective ; but his
&s6fitosy which reasonable men would
Ut 81 ia their most reasonable mo
mb1tls md il might b : tribe too asade-