Show I LOVE FOR AMERICA I AMERIGA-I I TO BRYCE I New British Ambassador to America Is Favorite in j jI i I England I IONE I ONE OF THE COMMON FOLKS I I II i Much IlIch In Open anti and andas Was as as FIr VIrt t Modern Iod tn I MUM Iun to Ascend to 10 Summit of oC if i Mt It Ararat I I I London Jan 1 17 Jarnes James Bryce's app appointment a as British ambassador at Washington was received coldly b by bythe bythe I Ithe the opposition pre press 8 nt ot first t but hUl It Is commended universally now III Ills his friends are aro overwhelming o him with congratulations Although proud of or this testimony to his popularity Mr 11 Bryce makes make no ito secret of ot It that lint at nt his age uge give hu up till hl his career In iii parliament and to enter tho the new nov path patti of or statecraft Is Holon not Hol on only an experiment but u a wrench to him When rhen a friend felicitated him himon himon on his appoint appointment men I. I Bryco's eyes tilled filled with tears taIS and ho replied pathetically Oh well it I Is a great chun change e nt at I Ime my time time- QC gf life u u. change possible to tome tome me only because e it ta takes es me mt to America where I have so 50 man many many I friends In which I lIa have Interest so o 11 deep ep I Climbed Mount Ararat i Bryce has been a great mountain climber he has conquered not only I Ithe Ithe the most difficult cult Alpine and Balkan heights but bin was th the tho first modern man to attain time the summit of Mount lount Ararat This achievement raided A great greaL stir and the memory of It j is re- re reI I I vl ed d now Ills career carcel at Oxford was vas most successful sue suc unique unique in one way way for for his hl- prize essay n The Holy Roman Homan Em- Em Emi i pir pire has become a classic and und has run through numerous editions Bryce was one of or the mo most I pUshed Greek scholars of hi his his- lay day He HeIle wrote le Gre k Gre k er verse not only with Ith the thC facility not uncommon at nt Oxford but buti i with i a grace and beauty exceeding ln I rare He lIe Is a gifted linguist speak speak- j I Ing lug French German and Italian with w equal eC fluency and und purity while he has acquired too of modern Gr Greek ck of Turkish and of tho the Balkan I dialects He has mode made a u reputation I even ven In such a n bypath of science as I botany while hill a as everyone knows Inow hir hl hii hi r reputation in ii history a and nit political ito 1 I i conomy IT Pt Imme immense nH For Pot years h he worked hard In journalism he was C the editor I 0 of The Speaker a 0 Liberal mah weekly and contributed letters rs to the tho Nation atlon when Lawrence Godkin was its ils editor In a u word James Bryco has never I known what it Il Is to loaf for or an on hour Always ho he finds recreation In i now of activity either mental or phy physical lIe He plays golf nut not w well I but mo most t keenly he lie is he fond of walking and und enjoys s 's motoring lie He speaks En English lIsh with a n. strong Belfast accent His vast store tore of arlod information makes hIm him n i-i most i Interesting talker besides hi his sense t j i of humor Is not deficient del 11 Ho II 11 tho ilic l Bryce Is li a colos colossal ll smoker but only of lime pipe if he ho over ver u a l cigar or puffs r a cigarette It i Is in m obedience to the tho conventions or OI out of compliment to hi his host hosl The TIll walls talIs I of his study In hl his tin tine fine house on Portland portland Port port- land place tire lined with books hook an and I pipes These root briar favorites favorite of hl his o hI of of nil all types from all nil countries countries- are arc arranged row upon tipon vow over r the i mantel mantal piece No o college student can a show a tenth of ci the Iho number nor i could he smoke them so perpetually lall I 1 without shattering his nervous nCr 88 tem tern I Bryce smokes with quick eager i puffs and consumes a of to tobacco tobacco to- to 10 1 bacco in less than no time An Any one ho who entered hl his ministerial room III In Inthe I Iho the house of commons saw neatly neati arranged ari ar- i ranged on his desk lc a dozen duzen or 15 briar pipes s. all filled filler In the course COUlSe of a a I business t. t interview of or half haIr an aim hour I t Bryce would U ute use e up tip six or eight I ht of or j the pipes as ns fast as UI he could smoke I them |