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LOWES, an English writer, the son of the late well-known artist, Lowes Dick in son. He was educated at Cambridge and immediately’ began a literary career. His Letters of a Chinese Official, published in this country under the title Letters of John Chinaman, a gentle satire, were taken so seriously by William Jennings Bryan that he replied to them in Letters to a Chinese Official. Among others of his works are The Huropean Anarchy 1916; The Choice Before Us, 1917, and The Magic Flute, 1920. (1851), an American lawyer and exSecretary of War, 6. in Columbus, Mi . Graduating from the University of Nashville, in 1871, he studied law at Columbia College, in New York, and later in Paris and Leipzig; Germany. He began to practice in Nashville, Tenn., in 1876, going to Chicago in 1899. During 1895-7 he was A istant Attorney-General of the U.S., and was counsel for the United States before the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, in 1903. From 1909 till 1911 he was Secretary of War in President Taft’s Cabinet. He was receiver of the Rock Island railroad lines during 1915-17. Amer. politician; studied law in England; held office in Delaware and Pennsylvania; adverse to Declaration of Independence. j