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BRYANT  Chicago. In 1887 he removed to Lincoln, Neb., and was elected to Congress in 1890, and again in 1892. Four years later he was nominated for the Presidency of the United States by the Democratic National Convention at Chicago. He advocated the free and unlimited coinage of silver by the United States at a ratio of 16 to 1, regardless of the action of other nations. The Presidential campaign resulted in his defeat. During the war with Spain, he became Colonel of a regiment of volunteers, but saw no field service. In 1900, he again appeared as Democratic candidate for the Presidency upon a platform of free silver, opposition to trusts, and anti-imperialism, and was again defeated by William McKinley. He made a tour of the world in 1906. In 1908 he was defeated for the Presidency by William H. Taft. He was appointed Secretary of State by President Wilson, March 4, 1913, and resigned Jan. 9, 1915. While in office he negotiated treaties with 30 nations. After resigning, devoted himself to lecturing. He took no active part in politics until the Democratic Convention of 1920, when he fought for the insertion of a prohibition plank in the platform. In this he failed. Publications: “Under Other Flags” (1904); “The Old World and Its Ways” (1907).  BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN, an American poet, born in Cummington, Mass., Nov. 3, 1794. After two years in Williams College, he turned his attention to law. But in early youth he produced “Thanatopsis,” and some of his best lyrics—“To a Waterfowl,” “The Yellow Violet,” etc. In 1829 he became editor-in-chief of the New York “Evening Post.” His books include “Letters of a Traveler” (1855); “Letters from Spain” (1859); “Letters from the East” (1869); and a “Popular History of the United States,” with S. H. Gay (4 vols., 1878- 1882). His “Poems” appeared in New York in 1832. This was followed by “The Fountain and Other Poems” (1842), and “The White-Footed Deer and Other Poems” (1844). His first complete edition was issued in Philadelphia in 1846. In his old age Bryant began a translation of the “Iliad” and “Odyssey,” in blank verse; and his last great poem was “The Flood of Years,” a noble pendant to “Thanatopsis.” He died in New York, June 12, 1878.

 BRYCE, GEORGE, a Canadian educator and clergyman, born in Mount Pleasant, Ontario, April 22, 1844. He was graduated at the University of Toronto in 1867, and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1871. His great work was the foundation of Manitoba College and in assisting the foundation of Manitoba University. He has written “Manitoba,” and “A Short History of the Canadian People.”    BRYCE, JAMES, VISCOUNT, an Irish historian, born in Belfast, May 10, 1838. After graduating at Oxford in 1862, he