Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-24

the fine old-fashioned estate of Dr. Smith,
which stops up streets in Toronto as the
Capitol building and grounds stop streets
and avenues in Washington. This home is
the Mecca of the learned of both hemi
spheres.
In history political economy and consti-
tutionaI government Bryce and Smith are
considered two OF the most learned men in
the world, with sympathies as wide the
world They have much in common, and
visit. consult and go about together like
brothers. Both are democratic in manner,
thought. taste and dress both profound
students of history and of domestic and
political economy: both were practicing
barriSters of Lincoln's Inn; both are add
mirers of republican institutions: both have
of the United States, and both have been
prolific writers about the American repub-
lie and the American people
Mr.. Bryce was born in Belfast in 1888.
and DR.. Smith in England fifteen years
earlier. The latter espouSed the cause of
the north during the civil war, and in 1853
came to the United States to become pro-
feSSor of English and constitutional history
to Toronto which has since been his home:
but in the public mind he belongs as much
to the United States as to Canada. What
is popularity known as the tory (the
Swcttenham) element of Canada fully real
ties this fact, and Is very much disturbed
over the intimacy between Dr. Smith ana
Ambassador Bryce.
Interest in Republican Conditions.
DIR. Smith has written American Slave
ry," The Morality of the Emancipati ton
Proclamation. England and America"
Relations Between America and England"
| sketch of the "emancipator'' William
Lloyd Garrison. THE Civil War in Amer
| lea ''The United States" and great
| number of essays and addresses on the
United States and her affairs and people.
Mr.. Bryce has always been interested in
republican Institutions and shown his bias
toward the United States as an exemplifi-
cation of them. He is said to be the frank
est and altogether the ablest of Anglo
Saxon economists in predicting the great
ness of the American future In closing the
second volume OF The American Common
wealth" prepared more than twenty years
ago and published in 1883. he declared that
already America marks the highest level
not only of material well-being. but of in
telligence and happiness which the race has
| attained"
A Vigorous Family.
When the announcement of his appoint
ment was made many commentators OBJ
served that Mr.. Bryce, at sixty-nine, must
| be too old for a position burtiened with SO
many exactions. social and diplomatic Evil
IDENTIFY they possessed no accurate informa-
| ton about the Bryces.
The ambassadors grandfather. Rev. Jas.
B.yce who left Scotland and settled in
Ireland more than century ago because
| he souud that ne could enjoy there freedom
| to establish a perfectly untrammeied Pres
| byterian church, preached twice vigorous
| Is" the day before his death, which occurred
when he was past ninety. He was a sturdy
| Covenanter. maintaining himself and his
| church In County Londonderry without a
| farshing from the lord lieutenant's endow-
| meat or the propagation fund of the parent
| church In Scotland. He was never sick and
/ wrought necessarily for eighty years"
| The ambassadors father, James Bryce,
| schoofmaster historian, naturalist. geolo-
! elst philosopher and man of letters, after
| a life OF activity from childhood, was killed
! by the falling rocks which he had loosened
/ while at work in the yrater of vol
cano. Although seventy-one, he possessed
4 all the physical and intellectual strength
| and vigor of man of thirty. He had never
beer. III or idle a day of his life. Mr..
\ Bryce's mother, before her marriage. was
4 Margaret Young of Antrim-Scotch.
] The present James Lryce Is like his faith