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...This learned body, which receives from Parliament a yearly subvention of '2,000 pounds for the promotion of research," says the Bulletin, "was established in 1902, with Lord Rosebery, W. E. H. Lecky, and James Bryce--as he then was--among its incorporators. The Earl of Balfour, is now its president. Its membership is made up of 150 British Fellows and about 40 Corresponding Fellows of other nationalities...
These books are to some extent a continuation of Bryce's Commonwealth. The author begins where Bryce left off and accounts succinctly for recent developments in U. S. politics. But more important is the service which has been rendered to the people, no matter of what nationality, who wish to understand the workings of the body politic in Britain, and there is much to be derived from that recital of body politics in general. These are no textbooks requiring a scholarly mind to disentangle their sense, but rather are they full of trenchant observation, clear analysis and an ofttimes...
...inducted to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, to which he had been elected in 1923. Only two U. S. celebrities had entered that august company before him-Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. The chair he received was that vacated in 1922 by the late Viscount James Bryce, English statesman-historian...
...upon Lord Bryce's life and works that Dr. Butler dwelt in his assumptive address, not forgetting many fine courtesies to France, ringing references to Franklin, Jefferson and La-Fayette, fitting eulogy of the French historian, Alexis de Tocqueville, whose writings on the U. S., the speaker implied, were quite as able as Bryce's, if not more so. "A nation," proclaimed Bryce's successor, in lofty conclusion, "must believe in itself as a moral as well as a political entity . . . eager pursuit . . . grave problems . . . powerful aids . . . national security and national satisfaction . . . lasting international peace...
...There is no one in America or in Europe," wrote the former Ambassador Bryce in a tribute to Professor Norton on the same occasion, "whom those who know what he has done and who have been privileged to enjoy his friendships will deem more worthy of a tribute of affectionate respect such as that which you are now paying to this reverend patriarch of American letters...