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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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NINGS BRYAN. tinctively to what are called tlie middle classes,no member thereof having attained great wealtli,and none having been reduced to abject poverty.Even since their marriage they have continuedtheir student life together—j\Irs. Bryan, duringthe years immediately following, studying lawwith her husband as instructor, pursuing thecourse prescribed in the Union College of Law,Cliicago, and being admitted to practise beforethe Supreme Court of Nebraska in 1888. Shedid not, however, study with any idea of prac-tising law, but merely to keep in touch with herhusbands work. Three children have l)een boi-n to Mr. andMrs. Bryan, all of whom are still living. Theoldest, Ruth Baird, is now neaily fifteen ; thesecond, AVilliam Jennings, Jr., is eleven; andthe youngest, Grace Dexter, is nine. Theolder girl. Mrs. Bryan has justly observed, • isverv much like hei* mother ; the vounaer stronii:lyresembles her father, and the son seems to be a 180 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REFIEIV OF REVIEWS.
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William Jennings Bryan, Jr. Rutli Baird Bryan. MR. AND MRS. BRYANS THRKE CHILDREN. (jrace Dexter Bryan, composite photogrcaph of both parents. Mrs.Bryan is one of many thousand refutations ofthe old fear that the higher education of womenwould lessen their interest in the affairs of home.She illustrates the truth that the stronger awomans interest in the serious things of life, thegreater will be her devotion to the supreme interestof every serious woman.Mrs. Bryan has been to herchildren their constant com-panion, and her unity ofinterest with them hasbeen as marked as lierunity of interest with herhusband. The Bryan home at Lin-coln was built by Mr. Bry-an soon after he entered thepractice of law at that place.It is a comfortable dwel-ling, but not in any waya pretentious one, Thelarge library in which Mr.Bryan spends most of histime has, as its most not-able feature, three largeportraits of Washington,Jefferson, and Lincoln—Jef ferson, significantlyenough, occupying the cen- ti-a

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