Lloyd S. Bryce

The career of Lloyd Bryce was varied and interesting. Educated in part at Oxford, he returned to New York and studied law; but soon turned part of his energies to literature, producing several novels, of which Paradise and A Dream of Conquest may have been the best known. Next politics. For Governor Hill appointed him Paymaster General of New York State, and the next year, 1887, he was elected a member of Congress, where he worked for the improvement of our harbors and the laws of copyright. Then his friend Allen Thorndyke [Thorndike] Rice died, bequeathing to General Bryce a controlling interest in the North American Review. So, purchasing the remaining interests, he became the editor of that still famous periodical. At the end of seven years he laid aside the burdens of editorship, and later was appointed minister to The Hague, where his diplomatic career made one of the most distinguished episodes of a many-sided life, through all of which he was a noted social personality.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1918 Century Association Yearbook