Mr. Walter Hines Page, who has been appointed American Ambassador
at St. James's, is a Southerner by birth and education, a Democrat in polities, but first and foremost a man of academic and literary distinction. He is a Fellow of Johns Hopkins University, has been editor of the Forum, the Atlantic Monthly, and the World's Work, and since 1900 has been associated with a leading publishing firm in New York. The breadth of his outlook is sufficiently illustrated by the fact that it was he, a devoted Southerner, who introduced Booker Washington to the American public and that he has taken the liveliest interest in the solution of the negro problem pro- vided by Hampton and Tuskegee Colleges. He is said to be an excellent speaker, a genial host, and a confirmed optimist, and his fine record will ensure him a cordial welcome in England.
