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with freedom by a word from him." PrevostParadol, a member of the French academy and a prominent liberal, wrote: "The political instinct which made enlightened Frenchmen interested in the maintenance of the American power, more and more necessary to the equilibrium of the world; the desire to see a great democratic state surmount terrible trials and continue to give an example of the most perfect liberty united with the most absolute equality, assured the cause of the north a number of friends among us. Lincoln was indeed an honest man, giving to the word its full meaning, or rather the sublime sense which belongs to it, when honesty was to contend with the severest trials which can agitate states, and with events which have influence on the fate of the world. Mr. Lincoln had but one object in view from the day of his election to that of his death, namely, the fulfillment of his duty, and his imagination never carried him beyond it. He has fallen at the very foot of the altar, covering it with his blood. But his work was done, and the spectacle of a rescued republic was what he could look upon with consolation when his eyes were closing in death. Moreover, he has not lived for his country alone, since he leaves to everyone in the world to whom liberty and justice are dear, a great remembrance and a pure example."

When, in a log cabin in Kentucky, a hundred years ago this day, that child was born who was named after his grandfather killed by the Indians, Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon I swayed Europe, Jefferson was President of the United States, and the second war of independence had not yet come to pass. It seems all very remote. But the memory of the great man whom we try to honor today is as fresh in everybody's mind as if he had only just left us. "It is," says Plutarch, "the fortune of all good men that their virtue rises in glory after their death, and that the envy which any evil man may have conceived against them never survives the envious." Such was the fate of Abraham Lincoln.

JUDGE HUMPHREY

Introducing the British Ambassador

There is a nation which governs one acre in five of the territory of the earth and one person in five of the population of the world. It is developed out of Briton and Phoenician and Roman and Saxon and Dane and Norman. Amid the shifting sands of government it stands as a rock of empire. A people governed not by a written constitution but by a working, worldly wisdom; where efficient results of government are accompanied with the least machinery of government; where there is order without despotism and liberty without license; where lynch law is unknown; where justice is certain and as prompt as certain.

One of the most gifted sons of Great Britain honors us with his presence tonight. So surely has he a fixed place in the intellectual world, that students of modern political systems look to him as master and guide. So wisely has he written of our own political institutions that American scholars sit at his feet and drink in the learning of his noble mind. He is the ripened fruit of centuries of Anglo-Saxon progress.

I have the pleasure of presenting His Excellency, The Right Honorable James Bryce, The British Ambassador.

THE BRITISH AMBASSADOR

Some Reflections on the Character and Career of Lincoln

You are met to commemorate a great man, one of your greatest, great in what he did, even greater in what he was. One hundred years have passed since in a lowly hut in the bordering state of Kentucky this child of obscure and unlettered parents was born into a country then still wild and thinly peopled. Three other famous men were born in that same year in England: Alfred Tennyson, the most gifted poet who has used our language since Wordsworth died; William Gladstone, the most powerful, versatile and high-minded statesman of the last two generations in Britain, and Charles Darwin, the greatest naturalist since Linnaeus, and chief among the famous scientific discoverers of the nineteenth century. It was a wonderful year, and one who knew these three illustrious Englishmen whom I have named is tempted to speak of them and compare and con