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...time that the political story-tellers rewrote their most amazing tales. For now the traditional Dick Whittington who rose to be Lord Mayor of London has been eclipsed by the Scotch peasant boy who came to London some forty years ago with only his native genius as his heritage to become in time Prime Minister of Great Britain. And now the extraordinary tribute paid in 1906 and the years that followed to the courage and sincerity of the Little Englanders like Campbell-Bannerman and Lloyd-George, who had opposed the Boer War, has been paralleled or surpassed by the vindication...
...impossible to comprehend the man without remembering that he is Scotch, that he is not only reticent but shy in private life, that his mind is scientifically intellectual, and that few if any men have been able to pass the barrier which he has erected around his inner personality. The late Lord Morley knew him perhaps better than any other man--and Morley was a kindred spirit...Severely intellectual, kind and sympathetic, but unapproachable and never hearty, vigorously honest, passionately devoted to certain ideals, capable of an emotional appeal which was seldom employed--it is not strange that...
...MacDonald is placed in a peculiar position. His character, as the author points out in some of his best passages, is after all essentially conservative. He is fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses to rise to heights of impassioned...
...like no other man who has ever become an important figure in American public life. His qualities, his methods, and his whole career were such as to make comparisons and parallels misleading. He was born of southern Scotch-Irish stock. He was a graduate of Princeton and later a student of law at the University of Virginia and of history and political science at the Johns Hopkins University. He became a professor of history and government, first at Bryn Mawr, then at Wesleyan, and then at Princeton. He was made President of Princeton in 1902, Governor of New Jersey...
Died. Montgomery Roosevelt Schuyler, 70, cousin of the late President Roosevelt, at Nyack, N. Y., of cardiac rheumatism. Before Prohibition he and his cousin, Samuel Roosevelt, were sole agents in the U. S. for Haig & Haig, Scotch whisky...