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Cornell, and Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, were 

 among the officers and speakers. The various branches of economics 

 were discussed largely by Americans such as Clark in economic theory, 

 Eipley in transportation, Seligman in public finance, and Hoffman in 

 insurance, although Eugene von Philippovich came from Vienna. 



In one of the political sections an address of exceptional interest 

 was made by the Eight Hon. James Bryce, M.P., eminent as a states- 

 man, preeminent as a scholar in the field of political and legal 

 history, gratefully honored by every educated American. The Hon. 

 David Jayne Hill, our minister to Switzerland, spoke for diplomacy. 

 Under jurisprudence, Professor La Fontaine, member of the Belgian 

 Senate, spoke for international, and Signor Brunialti for constitu- 

 tional, law. Professors Max Weber, Werner Sombart and T. Jastrow, 

 and Dr. Emil Miinsterberg, president of City Charities at Berlin, 

 came from Germany alone for sections devoted to the social commu- 

 nities and groups. From abroad came Eein, of Jena, the eminent 

 pedagogical philosopher, for educational theory; Michael E. Sadler, of 

 Manchester, whose splendid work for public education in England has 

 won the admiration of educators everywhere, for the section devoted 

 to the school; M. Chabot, of Paris, for the university; and Guido 

 Biagi, royal librarian at Florence, for the library. The section on the 

 college listened to an address by that staunch and scholarly educator, 

 President M. Carey Thomas, of Bryn Mawr College. 



Among the speakers before the six sections concerned with prac- 

 tical religion were some who have exerted a wide popular influence, 

 such as Eev. Hugh Black, of Edinburgh, Babbi Hirsch, of Chicago, 

 and Dr. Josiah Strong, of New York. 



But the regular meetings were not enough. The Eighth Inter- 

 national Geographic Congress, under the presidency of Commander 

 Eobert E. Peary, came to St. Louis to meet with the Congress of Arts 

 and Science, and aroused considerable interest. Members of the con- 

 gress having common technical interests were invited to special meet- 

 ings of various sorts. Thus a Conference on Solar Eesearch was held 

 and an organization effected looking toward international cooperation 

 among those interested in the investigation of solar problems. It is 

 significant that almost all of the leading academies and other appro- 

 priate societies of the world which had been invited to cooperate, were 

 ready with representatives from the membership of the congress. 



Nor were the scientific meetings all. Men may be interesting 

 though their theories be wrong. When they are known to have ideas 

 and to have won distinction, they are especially interesting, even to 

 those not technically familiar with their work. And while some 

 scholars may seem .neither to have inherited nor acquired the art of 

 social enjoyment, the species is almost extinct, except in fiction and 

 on the stage. There was entertainment enough, in varying degrees 

 of informality, including the spontaneous formation of numerous 



