1910] In London Again 



cratic American ideas into Belgian schools. Rossignol 

 lost his life early in the German occupation of 

 Brussels, but no details have ever reached me. 



During our stay in the stately, historic city we 

 visited the International Exposition, a not very 

 successful effort to display the industrial achieve- 

 ments of Europe. There I first met Professor Patrick 

 Geddes of the University of Edinburgh, who had 

 made an exhibit of his plans and models for ideal 

 town-building, a matter in which he took a prominent 

 part. It was fine to see one ranking so high as a 

 specialist in Biology also active in humanitarian work. 

 By virtue of his keen, strong mind and abounding 

 courage he well deserves the fine tribute paid him by 

 Alfred G. Gardiner in " Pillars of Society." 



In London I was again the guest of the Herbert The Red 

 Hoovers, this time at the Red House on Hornton H use > 

 Street, beloved of all Stanford men and women street 

 indeed, of all Americans who passed that way. The 

 use of an extra automobile now gave me a second 

 opportunity for generous acquaintance with London 

 as well as with rural England. One Sunday I remem- 

 ber with special pleasure as a red-letter day. In the 

 morning I picked up Norman Angell and took him 

 along to the South Place Church, at which John A. 

 Hobson gave a scholarly discourse. Service over, we 

 all three drove to Hobson's house, across in Surrey 

 near Reigate, for luncheon, after which Angell and I 

 had tea with Sir John Brunner at his stately man- 

 sion, "Silverlands," in Chertsey, fifteen miles farther 

 on, finally ending the day at the home of Sir William 

 Osier in Oxford ! 



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