A collection of Smith's letters to the New York Sun about religious speculation was published under the title In Quest of Light. The little volume inspired replies from a number of readers, as did his pamphlet on the labor movement, Progress or Revolution? Smith was host at the Grange to seventy-seven meetings of the University Commission, which developed a plan for linking several independent colleges to form a single University of Toronto. Carnegie was his guest when he visited Toronto to inspect plans for the new library he had agreed to build there, and Smith joined a controversy over the failure of the city to enforce laws to control the industrial smoke that threatened the health of its inhabitants. There were a few letters from Bryce, who had been appointed Secretary for Ireland. In August a Scottish-born Canadian wrote of his experiences with the Liberal party in Wales in Gladstone's time, and he wrote about the misrule by the great landowners of Ireland and Scotland. Other topics mentioned on the reel are Socialism, woman suffrage, and a charge of Jewish control of the American press. On November 24th Smith wrote to Charles Eliot Norton of his preference for cremation and of his intention to destroy his private correspondence.