Brilliant Mr. Smith

Comes now Lord Birkenhead. " When the American Bar Association convenes in Minneapolis in August it will be addressed by the former Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Birkenhead, who began life as F. S. Smith; also by Charles E. Hughes."

Birkenhead, since Oxford days, has been tagged with one inevitable adjective: brilliant. Distrusted, and extravagantly admired, he established a record by reaching the Lord High Chancellor's woolsack at the age of 45. Lloyd George was then (1919) his chief, and three years later Birkenhead, although a Tory, followed his chief into the so-called wilderness.

Birkenhead, the orator, resembles nothing so much as a well-polished Jovian thunderbolt. It is said that the combination of his logic and eloquence convince even the people who vote against him.

In further contrast to Lord Robert Cecil, he is handsome, well-dressed, athletic, married, a little vain, temperate in his use of idealism.

Finally it may be said that no abler lawyer has ever come to this country.