Two British statesmen, and only two, are among the twenty - two
Guides, Philosophers and Friends whose charac, ters are studied in a kindly and thoughtful book by Dr. C. F. Thwing, the well-known President Emeritus of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (New York : Macmillan. 3 dollars 50 cents). The two are Lord Bryce, of course, and Lord Morley, whom Dr. Thwing numbered with all the others among his personal friends. Morley said once that he had been asked by Disraeli's executors to write the official life of Disraeli and refused because " the result would not have been artistic." Certainly it was an odd choice ; perhaps that is why the fact that the offer was made has only now come to light. Dr. Thwing admired Bryce, not only as a very wise man, but as a devout man, and likens him to J. H. Newman. The studies of John Hay, A. D. White, C. W. Eliot, and other distimmished Americans are intimate and attractive.
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