There will naturally be a. biography of Lord Bryce, and his full career will assure it a high interest, not only here, but in America. It may, perhaps, ~be assumed that it will be undertaken by his old.friend Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, Minister for Education, who is one of his executors. At the time of his death Lord Bryce was engaged upon two books, and probably they were sufficiently advanced to be published. On that, and on other literary matters, Lady Bryce will have the advice of Mr. Fisher.
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There is one London editor who thinks Mrs. Violet Jacob the finest writer of Scottish verse now living. There is another who holds that her story, "The Sheep Stealer's," is the equal of any English novel written in our day. Mrs. Jacob herself lives quietly in her native Forfarshire, and merely sends us a new piece of Jiterary work now and then. She has, in recent years, done a certain number of short stories dealing with character, colour and incident in Forfar shire and Perthshire. She has now gathered them into a volume, which John Murray will publish, "Tales of My Own Country."
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