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warfare between nations would be the
subject of amicable conference.
James Bryce produced his first book
THE Holy Roman Empire at the age
of "a years, just after his gradua-
ton from oxford University, and his
last book, Modern Democracies." al
the age of Ss, six months or so before
his death, His active life can be said
therefore, to have begun and ended with
literature, although there were MANY
years between when he was essentially
| a man of action-traveler, orator. in
vestigator and leading figure in the
swiftly changing politics of the empire.
In his last book he reviewed and de-
scribed with the unerring vision of the
trained historian the Governments of
France, Switzerland. Canada, the United
States, Australia and New Zealand, and
these volumes were said by eminent
critics to be a worthy sequel to the
American Commonwealth" the author
ship of which alone would have entitled
him to the very highest rank among
economists Of the past and present.
All countries experimenting in new
systems of government interested his
far reaching and inquisitive mind, and
during his Ambassadorship to America
he found time for visit to South Amer
lean countries, a trip which resulted in
a carefully compiled description of life
and politics on that continent. SINH
larly, after the Boer War Mr.. Bryce
wrote out Of, first hand knowledge a
treatise entitled Impressions of South
Africa
How He Wrote Famous Book.
>. He described onoe-at one Of the
many dinners the Pilgrims Society gave
In his honor-how he came to write the
American Commonwealth" and the
modesty OF his account contrasted
strangely. his listeners said, with the
erudite quality of the work. TT never
occurred to me that my book would be
read by more than a few persons on
this side of the Atlantic" he said. $50
/ felt that / could speak with more
freedom"
II wrote 1t for Europeans" he said,
chose benighted Europeans who did
not know what America was and what
she would become. 1t was put to-
gether out of many conversations l had
not only with statesmen in the halls OF
Congress but at dinner parties. on the
decks of steamships, In smoking cars,
with drivers OF wagons on Western
prairies and with ward politicians and
city DObbtS.
Az an official representative of the
British Empire he is remembered in
Washington chiefly for the remarkably
skillful way in which he handled sew
eral delicate International questions,
chief among them being the Newfound-
land fisheries controversy. which he sue
cessfully piloted over rufiled waters TO
the quiet conference rooms OF the Hague
Tribunal in Holland. The general arbi-
tration treaty Of 1908 between Great
Britain and the United States bore the
stamp of his diplomacy, and he was
also called upon on several occasions
TO straighten out entanglements between
this country and Canada.
II was his partisanship toward the
Canadian reciprocity treaty, which failed
on referendum to the people of Canada
that caused many of the radical leaders
i'm tho British Government to single
Lord Bryce out for attacks. which went
to the extent of charging him with en-
deavoring to influence the Canadian
Government toward secession from the
crown.