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Governor Pinchot, with whom Page was associated, especially in conservation work and Roosevelt's Country Life Commission, sends me this charming paragraph of characterization:

Mr. F. N. Doubleday, who knew him so well in his professional work, speaks of Page's letters as "the expressions of his thoughtful philosophy worked out with the pen as he was accustomed to think out public matters in the editorials which he wrote for the World's Work for nearly fifteen years. Readers of those editorials may remember kindliness and optimism as their dominant qualities. * * * He never, I believe, wrote an editorial which failed to indicate the bright side."

From the Hon. John W. Davis, the brilliant publicist who was so worthy and so sympathetic a successor of Page at the British Court, I am privileged to quote as follows from a letter written a few days ago:

I think it no exaggeration to say that no American Ambassador in London was ever nearer to the heart of the English people than was Mr. Page. He elicited not only their esteem and admiration, but their warm