BROTHERS OF COMMON LIFE

of religious community established _ b; and Gerhard Groot in Dev enter, c. 1380 organ i to it St. Thomas 4 Kempis belonged embraced members devoted themselves to goot works, but lived their ordinary life it railroads, the world; extinct about 1750. me) labor, imPETER BROUG 1ST BARO} The (1778-1868), English lord oe ty i Edinburgh; educated at Edinburgh re-elected igh School and Univ.; admitted to as a ‘ot. bar, 1800; co-operated in founding sive. dinburgh Review, 1802, and contributed governor shty articles to first twenty numbers; sive tered at Lincoln’s Inn, 1803; settled chosen London, 1805; and was called to Eng. his w, 1808. Entering Parliament, 1810, 3 was soon regarded as a po ible leader, 1d carried a bill making slave trading 1918), lony. He was without a parl. seat, Iberia, 312-16. Returned for Win chelsea, University, 316, he became a prominent Opposition graduated ember, defeated Income Tax Bill, and Tulane alously advocated extension of popular engaged lucation. entered As Queen Caroline’s attorney-general, twice 320, his management of her case won his s fame. He introduced a great scheme enter ’ law reform, 1828, was returned for U.S. ork, 1830, and in Nov., although Whig years—from aders would have gladly omitted him Sixty-third om the cabinet, he was made lord He was lan cell or. Whig Government broke up May, 1834, and on its reconstruction, 1835, he ie rough am was excluded. He died at office. is chiefly remembered as a law reform and as an author. ter of ish dramatist and actor; a prolific of mite riter of plays, one of his best-known tinged ing The Duke’s Motto; as an actor pearly. > was very succe ful in Irish parts. 1885), 20), English novelist; wrote numerous b6. orks of fiction, including Cometh up Yale, - @ Flower, Second Thoughts, Dear tice of wustina, Between Two Stools, The 1858 evil and the Deep Sea. Legislature. 888), newspaper man and dramatic entered itic; 6b. Brooklyn, N. Y. He studied at of arvard University (1906-10). Begin was ng his journalistic work as a reporter (1863-67) 1) the N. Y. Morning Telegraph nor of 908-12) he went to the N. Y. Tribune for the 1912. He was sent to France by that ticket per as correspondent with the A.H.F, July, 1917. Of recent years his work (1771-1810), is Chiefly consisted of dramatic criticism. Wiel and, e has contributed many articles to The agazines and has written Wzth General B.’s ershing and the American Forces, 1918. of Godwin