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For it was soon evident, from certain remarks made by the Coroner, that the theory which Archdale had put forward at the club in Bryce's hearing the previous day had gained favour with the authorities, and that the visit of the jurymen to the scene of the disaster had been intended by the Coroner to predispose them in behalf of it.
Transcripts of four of the Radisson Journals copied from the originals in the Bodleian Library, Oxford are possessed by the Prince Society, Boston. Of modern histories dealing with the early era Beckles Willson's The Great Company , George Bryce's Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company , and Laut's Conquest of the Great North-West are the only works to be taken seriously.
Uncritical reprint of very valuable articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. GEOFFREY DRAGE. Austria-Hungary. 21s. net. 1909. A mine of economic facts. H.W. STEED. The Habsburg Monarchy. 1914. Far the best summary of tendencies, on the lines of Bodley's France and Bryce's American Commonwealth. Racial Problems in Hungary. 1908. 16s. net.
Also by reason of the fact that Bryce's gaze never wavered from the road immediately in front of the car, she had a chance to appraise him critically while pretending to look past him to the tumbled, snow-covered ranges to their right. She saw a big, supple, powerful man of twenty-five or six, with the bearing and general demeanour of one many years his elder.
This is getting fairly tiresome." "You should have thought of that before you started that business," the other one reminded him. "It's rather late now to be finding out the flaws in your plans." The sneering smile on Mr. Bryce's face broadened into a grin of triumph. "Didn't you ever hear the proverb about glass-houses and the people who live in them?" he enquired blandly.
"I have read Bryce's American Commonwealth, Cooley's Constitutional Limitations and a work on Constables. I have been too busy getting practical ideas about courts and juries to read much law; with me the main thing is to know the judge and the jury." His examiners issued a license.
"If the tree was absolutely necessary it'd mean that we'd have to wait until 3rd or 4th of December, the day on which Bradby buried the treasure, and the only day of the year on which the sun, the tree and the threshold of the hut would be in an exact line. Bryce's idea of having to wait three months must have been conceived in the belief that the 3rd or 4th June would answer equally well.
Bryce's natural inclination was to wait upon M. Rondeau immediately, if not sooner, but the recollection of his dinner engagement at the Pennington home warned him to proceed cautiously; for while harbouring no apprehensions as to the outcome of a possible clash with Rondeau, Bryce was not so optimistic as to believe he would escape unscathed from an encounter.
A man of real ability, who is actively engaged in politics without being submerged by merely political intrigues, can hardly fail to wish at least to institute some kind of research into the principles which guide his practice. To such a desire we may attribute some very stimulating books, such, for example, as Bagehot's Physics and Politics or Mr. Bryce's philosophical study of the United States.
On a day when Bryce's mind happened to be occupied with thoughts of Shirley Sumner, he bumped into her on the main street of Sequoia, and to her great relief but profound surprise, he paused in his tracks, lifted his hat, smiled, and opened his mouth to say something thought better of it, changed his mind, and continued on about his business.
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