The Washington herald., 1920-02-26
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.

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Mr.. Justice Holmes is soon to give
to the public q collection OF his ad-
dresses and Important articles deal
ling with problems OF law and fits
evolution. More iaymen. not of the
legal profession. will be attracted
Ito this volume than would be the
case were the author any other
Judge of our high courts. First a
humanist and then q legalist, the
son of an eminent author. and bred
in an environment of culture. Oliver
Wendell Holmes the. second. has q
high place among those writer's
OF all time who In writing on law
have refused to become dry-as-dust
scholastics.
BY a strange chance the repre-
sentative of the Holland committee
which Is preparing to celebrate This
year the residence of the English
pilgrims In Leyden, Holland, is a
lScotchman by the name of ]. Irwin
Brown. He is pastor Of a church
in Rotterdam. maintained chiefly by
British Presbyterians. He comes to
this country to secure suitable rep
resentatives of the United States at
the Forthcoming celebration; and
naturally has turned to Rev. DR..
Henry van Dyke for his assent to
go. Another person who should be
on the list Is William Eliot Grins'
a thorough student of the episode In
Dutch history. a master Of the Dutch
Language. and an author OF note
Moreover he is a Congregationalist
land in direct spiritual descent from
! the Pilgrims.
President Hibben. of Princeton
has been head of that institution
| eight years, and yet he has for the
first time felt justified in stating
! 10 the alumni that the future OF
| the institution is secure. The trou-
bic? Inadequate funds The rem
edyc The recent Frick bequest and
the special endowment fund row
being raised. President Hibben's
! administration, especially during
the war, has been vigorous and am
bilious, and has belied the reputa-
ton he had when he stepped into
woodrow Wilson's shoes. namely
tina he, Hibben, was an easy-going
rather neutral person OF the closet
philosopher sort.
Canada, better late than never
Is talking of interfering into mel
upper house Of lawmakers some ''in'
teIiectuals." Usually nominees tc
the Senate have been successful
builders Of railways, managers oi
large trading corporations, able
lawyers, and seldom IL ever has ar
educator, author, or publicist in the
ordinary sense of that word, beer
named. The first candidate WHOSE
claims under the new regime are be-
ling urged by his friends, is Il. w
Thomson, of Ottawa. who has man,
friends in the United States. OWNS
to his long residence in Boston, hi
connections as an editor OF, anc
writer for a well known American
publication, and his generous hos
pitality to all writers from this sidt
the line who find their way to OF
tawa-
| He has written excellent verse and
prose. Lincoln is in few poems
tlimned as well as Thomson has don'
it in one of his tributes to the I'LL
nois statesman. He fought for thu
North in the Civil War. Thomson
also has gathered and passed on the
tales of the society life in the DO
minion and provincial capitals, ant
he will leave an invaluable record
Of the evolution of democratic
standards in a nation that began b!
being the colony of an empire. HI
represents the older Liberalism o.
the Dominion: has fought tooth and
nail the fiunkeyism. growth of snob
berry and bowling down to titles and
newly acquired wealth, which wen
on prior to the war. His letters Il
the Boston Transcript for man!
years were brilliant examples o
such Journalism at its best, for h
cared for the favor of no man ant
he called a spade in a most terrible
way. If he goes into the Senat'
now. IL will be asa lion who ha'
scratched and bitten many a persoI
with whom he henceforth must fra
iternize, or II not fraternize, at leas
be conciliatory.