th, to wear
The glory and the beauty of its prime.

They have not perished--no!
Kind words, remembered voices once so sweet,
Smiles, radiant long ago,
And features, the great soul's apparent seat:

All shall come back. Each tie
Of pure affection shall be knit again:
Alone shall Evil die,
And sorrow dwell a prisoner in thy reign.

And then shall I behold
Him by whose kind paternal side I sprung;
And her who, still and cold,
Fills the next grave--the beautiful and young.

D. Appleton and Company, New York.

JAMES BRYCE

(1838-)

James Bryce was born at Belfast, Ireland, of Scotch and Irish parents.
He studied at the University of Glasgow and later at Oxford, where he
graduated with high honors in 1862, and where after some years of legal
practice he was appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law in 1870. He had
already established a high reputation as an original and accurate
historical scholar by his prize essay on the 'Holy Roman Empire' (1864),
which passed through many editions, was translated into German, French,
and Italian, and remains to-day a standard work and the best known work
on the subject, Edward A. Freeman said on the appearance of the work
that it had raised the author at once to the rank of a great historian.
It has done more than any other treatise to clarify the vague notions of
historians as to the significance of the imperial idea in the Middle
Ages, and its importance as a factor in German and Italian politics; and
it is safe to say that there is scarcely a recent history of the period
that does not show traces of its influence. The scope of this work being
juristic and philosophical, it does not admit of much historical
narrative, and the style is lucid but not brilliant. It is not in fact
as a historian that Mr. Bryce is best known, but rather as a jurist, a
politician, and a student of institutions.

[Illustration: JAMES BRYCE]

The most striking characteristic of the man is his versatility; a
quality which in his case has not been accompanied by its usual defects,
for his achievements in one field seem to have made him no less
conscientious in others, while they have given him that breadth of view
which is more essential than any special training to the critic of men
and affairs. For the ten years that followed his Oxford appointment he
contributed frequently to the magazin