wing.

Nothing that he said or wrote will probably live, but they served their purpose at the time, and very little that is said or written does that much so well.

As in readiness of speech so in promptness of interest and action Bishop Dudley was always in the forefront of the Church's movements. He was easily to be counted among the three or four most prominent bishops. He was chairman by election of the House of Bishops in General Convention. It was his impulse and disposition to be at the front in everything he was in. It is perhaps not unnatural in the unambitious or less successful among us to charge such a man with the restless spirit of personal ambition. Far be it from me to affirm that there is no such thing as self-seeking, love of prominence and power, in the breasts even of bishops. We have only the common stuff of humanity to make bishops of, and the act of ordination and consecration does not eliminate the alloy. But there is something to be said for the better understanding of ambition. When nature fits a man to be at the front of affairs, she endows, or ought to endow, him with a corresponding instinct and impulse to be there. The failure to do so, and the consequent lack of necessary self-assertion in the man, met with the unqualified reprobation of the ancients. A man's desires and ambitions should be commensurate with his qualifications and merits. To want little when fitted and qualified for much-was mikropsuchy or pusillanimity. Ambition, or the hunger for prominence and influence and power, has other elements and springs in it than mere self-seeking. It is an important part of the man's outfit to render all the service that is in him. If there was in Bishop Dudley something of what is called "the politician," the disposition to manage or "run" things,-it is not necessary to say that there was nothing in it of the weaknesses common to us all. It is enough to affirm. that there was enough of the gold of right impulse and true and high motive to carry very easily what of alloy was there to temper it.

But it is yet more intimately and individually the man whom I wish more particularly to recall and embalm in our memories. It was his great heart, his deep and faithful affections, his loyalty to principles and persons-the richness of his emotional, even

more than the brilliancy of his mental nature - which endeared

him so much to us all. One of the first remarks from him that struck me in his youth was upon the subject of the great intimacy between himself and his father. As a member of the household not infrequently afterwards, I came to appreciate the beautiful confidence between himself and his parents even through times when he was most insecure and they most uncertain of him. What he was afterwards in his own family and with his own children only they have full authority to say. But it can be no secret to any who thoroughly knew him. I have full right to speak of him only as his friends knew him. And in all my experience he gave more depth and richness to the meaning of friendship than any man I have known. Once a friend he was so always without change or diminution. timately so, of course, to not very many, he was friend to more than is possible to ordinary men. Retentive in mind, he was even more so in feeling and affection, and it was a constant surprise to friends the longest and furtherest separated from to find how exactly he was to them what he had been not far from fifty years before. The "fifty years before" which had largely faded out of their minds and hearts was fresh and living in his.

And while in

The above traits taken in just the generous composition that constituted Bishop Dudley will account for the large hold which he laid upon his time, and for the wide vacuum which his going has left behind. There are others left behind, large in many of the ways in which he was large. We value them highly for themselves. There cannot be another either Tom Dudley or Bishop Dudley. Intimately alone with a friend, brilliantly giving life to a social function, eloquently responding to every thought or emotion of an audience, quick and alert and ready in council— in any act or relation, who can take just the place left empty by his translation to other spheres and other activities!

The name and location of our REVIEW-although in fact as in purpose the SEWANEE REVIEW is no more of Sewanee than of any of the other centres which it equally represents-might yet justify a brief appreciation of what he was to The University of the South, of which he had been for the second time elected Chancellor.

Tom Dudley grew up in the height of the educational revival that culminated in Virginia just before the war. The University

had created the University Schools, and the Schools were making the University. Teaching had become a permanent profession, and the Masters of Arts who, at the rate of half a dozen a year, represented the turned out product of the educational system, were going into it almost without exception. Dudley had entered the University from Lewis Coleman's University School, and when Mr. Coleman went to the University as Professor of Latin, Dudley became tutor under him, a position in which the war found him. All this gave him an intimate acquaintance with Virginia ideals and methods of education, and prepared him for a deep and practical interest in educational schemes and enterprises in general. I have already indicated a deeper ground still for this interest. The boy-nature never lost and the boy-life never grown old in himself drew him irresistibly to all aggregations of boys and young men. He lived over and kept green and fresh his own boyhood in the atmosphere of college life wherever he found it. So Bishop Dudley from the moment he entered into the system of The University of the South was predestined to become its Chancellor. It was not in his nature not to want the position-for itself, and for the great relation into which it brought him with a great enterprise wholly after his own heart. And in it he wholly endeared himself to the University, from the Vice-Chancellor to the youngest Grammar School boy, simply by his instantaneous power of understanding and entering into and sympathizing with everything in it. There was no respect in which Bishop Dudley showed more his native. tact and his wise experience than his application of the principle that all a Chancellor or a Board of Trustees can do—and there is very much they can do-can be done effectively only through a determined and complete understanding and sympathy and cooperation with the local administration, the Vice-Chancellor and Faculties of the Institution. If any one should ask what Bishop Dudley added materially, educationally, or administratively to the life of the University of which he was so long the Chancellor, there may be many answers, but the sufficient answer to Sewanee itself would be: "What he was to us

in his life, for inspiration, for comfort, and for help, can only be measured by and be expressed in terms of our own experience of the loss we have suffered in his death!"

WILLIAM PORCHER DU BOSE.

The University of the South.

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HISTORY OF Andrew Jackson, Pioneer, Patriot, Soldier, POLITICIAN, PRESIDENT. By Augustus C. Buell. With Portraits. Two volumes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.

These volumes, dedicated by their author "To the embodiment in our times of the Jacksonian spirit, Theodore Roosevelt," are primarily intended to emphasize that of which much has lately been both written and spoken, viz., the "American" spirit. The methods and results are consequently very much like those of the same author's "Paul Jones, Founder of the American Navy," a work which in genuine attractiveness and lively interest proved to be a revelation of the services and personality of its subject. Mr. Buell has since died, having lived to complete the present work and hand it to the publishers, but without having been granted the privilege of looking over the proof sheets. Some discrepancies and unevennesses necessarily result, but this biography is still an absorbing and fascinating work. The reader who takes it up is not likely to put it down for good until both volumes are read,—a safe and fair test, whatever defects in details may be objected to.

This work, while no doubt the immediate result of the success of the "Paul Jones," yet seems to be the result of a life-time of conviction and study for itself. It is an enthusiastic labor of love; the author had it in his bones. His family before him were Jackson Democrats; "the first book I ever read," he declares, "was Judge Alexander Walker's 'Jackson and New Orleans'." The author seems to have made a painstaking study of all the material he could put his hands on and to have taken every care in the initial preparation; and then in the end to have made a rather hurried putting together of this material in the actual transcription. But this in no way affects the real value of the work. The author's intention was to write a popular book. journalist by profession and method, and wished to make a "live" book or none at all. His purpose was to "realize" Jackson, and this can best be done, after accumulating all the material and

He was a