A Biography

Every statesman and every near statesman nowadays has his biographers. But it is not often nowadays that a bishop turns biographer to a politician. Yet recently appeared a brief biography* of the late Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge, by the Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, Mr. Lodge's college classmate, /- who retired last month, as Bishop of the P. E. Diocese of Massachusetts.

The Bishop wrote about the Senator, calling him familiarly "Cabot." The Banker Bishop (socalled because of his inherited wealth, his financial successes on behalf of his Church), cousin of President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard, wrote sympathetically--too sympathetically to suit many people. For, praising Mr. Lodge, he offered something less than half-praise to Woodrow Wilson.

Speaking of Woodrow Wilson as President of Princeton, the Bishop remarked: "There was a well-founded rumor that ex-President Cleveland, respected by the whole country for his rugged integrity, had been the first trustee to break with the President, not on grounds of policy, but because his word could not be trusted. Only a few thousands knew this, however; and misunderstandings with men of strong temper (and Mr. Cleveland had one) were always possible."

* HENRY CABOT LODGE--Houghton, Mifflin ($1.75).

/- Harvard, 1871. Other potent members of that Class: the late Charles Joseph Bonaparte (Secretary of the Navy, 1904-06, Attorney General, 1906-09), the late Hamilton McK. Twombley (son-in-law of William K. Vanderbilt), Edward F. Whitney (J. P. Morgan interests).