The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1897-09-30
Hon. Wallace Bruce,

by IT, Br! ATT Literary Union the fol.
lowin. Interesting particulars about MIR.
Bruc" ard his c.re"r, so cur people can
be fully informed. We cou'nnse the
sketch.
Wallace Bruce, wl,nse name peaks
his Scottish ance STR, vas b9ru = Hills.
dale, Colanb.t county, NV y As
lad he was distir puish'd f,r z-t in
scholarship dad low al hLela,u-. ~
the agc f thirteen he traueiaied p,r
ton of r,, rr-I II ok If Nirsil'a neid
into Enelish verse He entered C. iver.
sack G. =. At sixteen, when h took
the val, Ictory. lie went to Y Uni.
versity, where he distI uguishnd b. 'nself
as scholar, wrt,'r and speaker y ming
six literary honors, ir Guiding ti- rizes
in English composition and public de.
bate. H. was made editor of the Yale
Literary Magazine by unanimous vote of
his class Was admitted to practice law
in 1859 In 1870 he went to Great Brit
ain and France, was in Paris the night
Napoleon the 3rd was captured at Sc
dan Wake over large part of Scot
land and EUgland, studying the chlrac.
teristics and customs OF the people On
his return to the Hudson, he adopted
literature as his life work and was re
ceived with marked favor on the lecture
| platform. In 1872 he was invited TO lee.
ture before Ponghkee psie Lyceum Itwas
brilliant course, consisting OF JOHN G.
Cough, Robert Collyer, Dewitt Tall.
mage, Daniel Dougherty and others.
but Mr. Bruce was awarded the palm OF
the winter entertainment, and his fame
as lecturer was established in the Hud-
son valley. From this happy opening
in the Queen city OF the Hudson, his
fame widened throughout the state, and
within two years he had all the appoint
pents he was able to fill. He has
| been ten times on the Poughkeepse
Lyceum, always giving his new lecture
as the opening or closing lecture of the
course, Unlike many orators his fame
began at home. And in the lecture field
he has not been without honor Gin his
own country and in his own house."
Between 1871 and 1889, in addition to
orations and poems on public occasions,
Mr. Bruce has ectured in almost every
town and city in New England, the Mid.
die and Western States, aggregating up
to 1889, over two thousand appointments
between New York and sanFrancisco.
This you will see was only up to 1889
1t is now 1897. What Mr.. Bruce has
done in his active career in the last
eight years we can not calculate, but it
has been immense. Mr.. Bruce was
made United States Consul to Edin.
burg. Scotland, July l, 1899, being ap.
pointed by President Harrison. After
an honorable career, he retired from this
post on September /, 1898 During his
four years in Scotland he was invited to
appear on almost every lecture course
in the realm, and for four years in sue.
cession before the Edinburgh Literary
Institute, He also gave several lectures
in England and was enthusiastically
greeted by the Parkside Institute, of
London.
While in Scotland, Mr.. Bruce wss
made Poet Laureate OF Lodge Canon.
gate Kilininniug Edinburg, as a success.
or to Robert Burns, Scotia's National
poet, and of James Hogg, the Eurick
Shepherd, besides being elected honor.
ary corresponding member of the Scott.
ish Society of Literature and Art, to sue.
| ToIn Graarloof ~ h;ttiar
He accepted the invitation to write
the poem for the unveiling of the Burns
monument at Ayr Over forty thousand
people were present when the poem was
read and it was pronounced the event
of the day. Mr. Bruce responded to
Burns Clubs All Around the World"
at Edinburg and Kilmarnack, Gave an
address at the unveiling Of Livingston's
monument at Leadhils. A poem at
Linlithguid at the Riding OF the Marches;
an address on Washington Irving, at the
old Grammar School building of STRAIT,
ford, on Avon, and an Grafton on the
occasion of putting up the Scottish STAN
dard on the battlefield of Bannochburn.
he also gave lne ueulcatory auureSS AT
the unveiling of the monument to Abra-
ham Lincoln in Edinburg, Scotland.
This was the first monument erected to
Lincoln, in Europe, the money for which
was raised by Nj. Bruce among Ameri-
can citizens, as a memorial to Scottish
American soldiers. Such is brief
sketch of Wallace Bruce, who will lee.
ture to us on Robert burns, October IA
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