Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — Character and Ability of Pope Leo. [ARTICLE]

Character and Ability of Pope Leo.

As a statesman his abilities are admitted to be of the highest order; as a scholar he is undisputedly one of the first Latinists of our time, and one of the most accomplished writers ill I .at in and Italian prose and verse; as a man he possesses the simplicity of character which almost always accompanies, greatness, together with a healthy sobriety of temper, habit, and individual taste rarely found in those beings whom we might well call -motors” among men.—Century.