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loch knew what a task it was, and nothing grieved him more than 

 to see his dearest friend sinking as he undoubtedly was, under the 

 burden of editing the great work. His genial and brave spirit 

 kept him up, and he actually survived his distinguished friend, 

 the Principal, by about a year. 



Few literary men have had so wide a circle of friends of the 

 highest eminence. Professor Baynes' personal friendship with a 

 wonderfully wide circle of men the most prominent in their various 

 spheres in London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and other intellectual 

 centres, specially fitted him for selecting the best writers. Long 

 a hfe-member of the Athenaeum Club— called, if I am right, to 

 the English bar early in life— sub-editor of the London Daily 

 News, when that newspaper was at the summit of its high reputa- 

 tion, there was hardly a man eminent in Literature, Philosophy, 

 Theology, Science, or Art, whom he had not met, and with whom 

 he was not in most cases on the most intimate terms of friend- 

 ship. John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Tyndall, Huxley, and 

 a host of others were in his inner circle of friends, yet in selecting 

 writers, he did not always choose men whose fame was already 

 established and noised abroad. Indeed the Encyclopaedia actu- 

 ally made the reputations of a large number of contributors to its 

 pages. Professor Baynes' profound knowledge and unerring 

 judgment is demonstrated by the brilhant names, which now 

 justify his choice. A large list could be compiled of young writers 

 whom Professor Baynes selected whose reputations the Encyclo- 

 paedia created, so that they became thereby famed as authorities. 

 That best known of living writers Andrew Lang, was little known, 

 and wholly unknown as a metaphysician, when his article upon 

 "An'mism" appeared in the first volume of the Ninth Edition. 

 He had a reputation as a polished classical scholar and dainty 

 poet, but his encyclopaedia article at once attracted attention as 

 an able and original contribution, and his philosophical fame has 

 grown, so that he was selected in 1888 as Gifford Lecturer at his 

 old University of St. Andrews. His later work based on his 

 Gifford lectures entitled " The Making of Religion " has established 

 itself as a brilliant study of a profound subject. In some cases 

 specialists were selected wholly unknown before but of whose 

 qualifications Professor Baynes was aware. In some cases 

 specialists of repute, but known only to specialists were chosen. 

 I doubt, for example, if many readers of the Encyclopaedia were 

 famihar with the name of Professor W. C. Mcintosh when the 



