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...Lord Bryce points out in "The American Commonwealth" that the people of the United States distrust the man of special education and choose as their representative and leader the average man--the man who can appeal to his constituents as one of the people, with ordinary feelings and instincts and mentality. And this attitude extends beyond the borders of politics into almost every field of American life. Its effects on education are important and serve perhaps to explain the lesser value attributed to studies in America as compared with Europe...
Sends telegram to a dinner in honor of Lord Bryce given by the Sulgrave Institution...
...well-nigh impossible to imagine a more interesting document than Viscount Bryce's posthumously published "Memories of Travel." As the title would suggest, the book is a series of essays or sketches describing some of the places visited by the author during his long and busy life. Ranging from the account of a youthful adventure in Iceland, written in 1872, to a bird's-eye view of "The Scenery of America" as gained in his last visit to this country in 1921, the book not only gives us delightful descriptions of peoples and places, but also traces Viscount Bryce...
...journeys, and a power of description which marks all the pieces. He does not attempt to give "an account of the country" either physically, or socially, or statistico-economically, or politically, or from any of the other points of view of a gazetteer. Yet, once done with Viscount Bryce's articles, the reader has a perfectly definite idea of the peoples, of their languages and literatures, of their industries and habits of life, and of the countries in which they live. If the author discusses the geological formation of a certain mountain range or the flora of a valley...
Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...