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Company. Mr. James Burrell Angell was born in 

 Rhode Island in 1829. ^^ ^^e early age of twenty- 

 four he was Professor of Modern Languages and 

 Literature at the Brown University. In politics he 

 was a Republican, and for some years he was United 

 States Minister in China. He was widely recog- 

 nised as a man of high character, largely endowed 

 with intellectual gifts, and especially well qualified 

 by nature and experience for diplomatic work ; 

 moreover, he was a very genial personage. Both 

 Messrs. Putnam and Angell were staying at the 

 Arlington, so we naturally saw a good deal of 

 them, and spent many hours in their congenial 

 society. 



The Hon. J. S. Winter, Attorney-General of 

 Newfoundland, had also arrived at the Arlington as 

 Agent of that colony. 



On the day after our arrival Mr. Chamberlain re- 

 ceived a large number of representatives of the press, 

 and a full report of the meeting appeared the next 

 day in the Washington Post. It is a good example 

 of the facetiae of the American reporter, in addition 

 to being a fairly accurate summary of what passed 

 on that occasion, so I give it verbatim : 



