There is much in this portrait, especially in the eyes, to suggest the late Sir Frederick Bruce, British Minister at Washington, who, when a youth in the diplomatic suite of Lord Ashburton, was called by Mr. Choate “the Corinthian part of the British Legation.” “Pallida Mors Æquo pulsat pede pauperum tabernas, Regumque turres.”—Carm. I. iv. 13-14. “Car lor cors ne vault une pomme Oultre le cors d’ung charruier.”—vv. 18792-3. |