It is credibly reported that Mr. Whitelaw Reid will succeed
Mr. Choate as American Ambassador in London in the spring. Mr. Whitelaw Reid has long been known as one of the most eminent of American publicists. After a distinguished Univer- sity career, he saw active service in the war, and for the last thirty years has been editor and proprietor of the New York Tribune. He was Minister to France in 1:•:7-92, and Special Ambassador to Great Britain in the Jubilee year of 1897, and again at the Coronation of King Edward. Honourably dis- tinguished in the domains of action, of letters, and of diplomacy, Mr. Whitelaw Reid commands the respect and confidence of both parties. With these credentials, he bids fair to main- tain the best traditions of an office associated with so many of America's worthiest sons. His hardest task will be to emulate the immense but well-merited popularity of Mr.' Choate, whose tenure of office has fairly entitled him to the Latin eulogy,—nonieent tristem fecit.
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