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Disraeli's Experience with Idolised Youth.
BALFOUR AND CHURCHILL, .
A characteristically interesting article was recently contributed to the Evening Standard, by A.A.B.
In the great business of own-, Ing, breeding, training, and riding horses it is remarkable how few men in any of these cats gories can apot a winner; while the tipster of some newspaper, or some young
jockey," or even some constant stud ent of pedigree and racing "form," is amazingly right.
What is true.of horses is truer of men in the longer race of life. It is astonishing what mistakes clever men make in-casting the horoscopes of the young men tread-į ing on their heels, though their mis-
judgments of their contemporaries is less surprising, because Jealousy, the most universal human passion, interfere there to cloud the reason. This train of philosophy was
awakened in my mind by reading the "Diaries of R. D. B.," which interested and amused me much, both because they cover a period which I find most, difficult to re- member-namely, that of twenty or thirty years ago and because they record with honest candour the mis- taken judgments of one of the clearest and coolest Editors of the day, without a spark of party pre- judice or personal rancour,
I am not alluding to trivial blun- ders, amusing as they are, such, for instance, as the delusion that, the "Guineas" are run in October and that Long's Hotel atood in Berkeley Square. I am referring to the fact that Mr., R. D. Blumenfeld should
have made the acquaintance of F. E. Smith, Lloyd George, Baldwin, and Haldane in their first appear- ance on the town and thought nothing more of any of them than that they were promising colts.
Errors of Judgment.
On two of them, Indeed, he was more specifle and more wrong Mr. Lloyd George, he thought, was too highly strung, too fragile and feveriah, to stay the race.
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people in that port is restricted Their answer to the critics was from the use of Western dress,5, Ho-hiyo_anolaborate examination millions of dollars will be saved mate-of-the-fabric, which reault-every year from the buying-of-im- ed in the starting of a work of ported clothing materials. If the than any under people like a short dress instead repnir greater taken in on English cathedral of the old long gown, why should church. The danger was not im-they not adopt the popular Sun mediate; but the building was, in Yat-sen attire, which could be Sir Aston Webb's words. "in dan-made of every sort of native ger of becoming dangerous." material. asks Mr. Wu. which was a storm signal clear "The Shanghai. Municipal Gov- enough for the Dean and Chapter ernment," continues Mr. Chang, to understand and to act on.
"has instructed the Kuomintang Leather Sole Canvas Shoes...$ 4.50 For thirteen years they have members and Government em- Crepe Rubber Sole Canvas Shoes $5.00 been carrying out a policy at ployees to boycott foreign dress Black or Brown Shoes from $6.00 Crepe Rubber Buckskin Shoes $10.00) ence-consistent and successful, and clothes made of imported Black or Brown Boots fon 8.00 to disregard alike the alarmist materials. But not a few of Children's Boots ur Shoes from $2.00 and the armchair critic. and to them have turned a deaf ear to Best styles, most complete stock concentrate on the work regarded the order. It is therefore neces- of all sizes. Repairing a specialty.
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"If prohibitive measures are not taken, our people will be so fond of foreign dress, foreign That task has now been.com house, and foreign goods that pleted. The work has had its native industries will suffer and crises and dificulties. Comic re the number of the unemployed ef was afforded by the serving will be increased. Formerly only of п "dangerous structure" small number of compradores in notice on the Dean and Chapter, treaty ports adorned themselves "as i" In Canon Alexander's in western style. Later on words, "they were the owner of a students and merchants followed small shop in Aldersgate Street their example. It will soon come For some little to pass that coolies, rikisha pull- cr Cheapside." time the more timid were ers, and farmers in backwood dis- frightened away from public wor-tricts will be crazy about the ship in the cathedral, under the collar and necktie."
Mr. Wu concludes by saying impression that at any moment the building might collapse over that the declare of native silk their heads: "nervous passengers and cotton industries in recent on Weat-bound buses felt safer years is due to the lack of support when the bottom of Ludgate Hill from the people as well as from was reached; and when. or the the Government. He thinks that last day of March, 1925, all the the time is ripe for the authori- space under the dome was closed, ties to step in to check the spread- it was necessary for the Treasuring of the foreign dress. er to announce that the step had though Mr. Wu's petition is sub- been taken, not because there was mitted to the Shanghai Municipal any danger, but in order to speed Government, it has aroused much up the pace of the repairs.
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Balfour, Asquith and Bonor Law have made grosser errors of We all know by this time that judgment. And I do not submit | Arthur Balfour despised and un- The policy has been justified; my quotations as Mr. Blumenfeld's derrated Winston Churchill as aj and in mail week in the presence very words, his book having passed ¦ young M.P., sneering at his prepar- of the King, of over a hundred
out of my hands, but as the sub-eù speaches, until he drove the bishops. and of representatives of SUNRISE AND SUNSET
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himself famous at twenty-five by
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Disraeli's Slips. Disraeli, was unfortunate with his young men, for, having made a novel, and Lender of the Tory Party at forty-four, he confounded youth with genius. There never was anyone who combined realism with idealism so persistently. Lord Beaconsfield He idoliaed youth, and consequently idealized
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In practice the results were sometimes unhappy. He was very fond of Lord Henry Lennox, a pleasant-mannered but empty- headed young aristocrat. He used to send Lord Henry first editions,
and wrote him the most affection- ate and amusing lettera, treating him as an equal. Wheni, in 1867, Disraeli was called upon, to form his first Government, he appointed Lennox Commissioner of Works, of Course without A seat in the Cabinet: "Dear Henry" turned upon his chief with fury because
he wasn't raade Cabinet Minister, and the intimacy ceased.
The second mistake was more disastrous, Dizzy
took young Ralph Earle from the Diplomatic Service and made him his private secretary, employing him, it must be admitted, in a questionable way, as a diplomatic detective, sending him op secret missions abroad. The young man's head was turned: and his chief having procured him a seat in Parliament and a minor office, a fancied slight changed the favourite into a rebel, who made a bitter speech against the Prime Minister.
Earle disappeared from Eng land. and from politics, and "engaged in a successful financial
career in the Near East," `ac-
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Mr. Asquith could see nothing Canon Alexander, Treasurer in Mr. Bonar Law, who was not the cathedral, on' whom the bur- bred in the Eton or Oxford den of the long years' work has kennel. This failure to apprefallen-and-who-has-borne it with ciate the latent force of Mr. Bonar a dignity, a courage, and a per- Law ruined Mr. Asquith, and cost reverance that are beyond critic- him the Premiership, the leadership ism or praise. The other is a white-haired official of the Liberal Party, and reduced venerable,
him, cruellest humiliation of all, to whom every visitor to St. Paul's Bue unsuccessfully from Mr. Lloyd will remember. Fivo years ago. George a place at the Paris Confer-after the last service before the
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at "the little Welsh attorney," who see St. Paul'a reitored to its for- came to rule them all, until he him-mer glory." He Is still there; and self was turned out by a quiet man there will be no happier man la called Baldwin, whom few people the cathedral when he shouldera outside the House of Commons had his silver wand and leads the ever heard of.
procession from West Door to In 1917 Prime Minister George Sanctuary, through the greatustie, the peristyle which decorates described Kerenski to a meeting congregation that St. Paul's, the exterior. of editors as "a splendid fellow, all its great history, has ever the St. Just of the Russian Revolu-known.
Halging Out Piers. Consequently, as the inner ani tion." Professor J. H. Morgan, K How the Task was' Accomplished,
outer drums are practically C., in his fascinating monograph on Lord Morley has preserved one pre was not one of foundations, as where they both rest on the arch
One learns that the problem separate, right down to the point sclent judgment, and two utter was commonly supposed for the ed plers. the inner drum had ly wrong. forecasts mado by, that foundations are reasonably safe thrown its weight on to the inner observant statesman. Almost improviding the water-bound nature faces of, the supporting piers, and mediately after the declaration of the sub-strata is not interfer-had begun to settle down as an of war in 1914, Morley remarkeded with); but one dealing solely independent structure, taking the to Professor Morgan, "Asquith is with the support of the domeinner faces of the pieze with it. not going to be the pilot that will The central domed structure-ne The frail integument between weather this storm," a strikingly most people are aware-consists the two drums was already shear sagacious prophecy.
of an inner and an outer shell; cd. through Ave years ago when But Morley, like most writers, like ons: tall, cylindrical drum work was begun in earnest and overvalued the men of decisive within another. These are prac- the inner faces of the piers had action and strong words. He tically separate structures, bear- bulged out several inches. thought Mr. Winston, F. E, and ing different weights, yet botti
But this was not the whole of Lloyd George came to understand resting on the great arches of the the trouble. It was found that one another, and get together, such plers below.
the piers in any case could not
a triumvirate would rule the world.
Disraeli was much upset by his second mistake in picking out a young man; but characteristically
This, it is fair to add, was in The laner drum has to do most stand up to the weight imposed he didn't change his method of the middle of the war. When, in of the work, for bealdes its own on them, for within the outer selection, which was guided by 1922, the news of the break-up of weight and the weight of the skin of Portland stone there was good looks and good manners. the Coalition reached Wimbledon, solid inner dome which are very nothing but a Alling of coarse This time he drew a prize. Mr. Morgan asked Lord Morley considerable it has to support rubble, which had become toosen Wandering about Raby Castle on what he felt about it, and was the great brick cone, the stone ed by age and settlement.
lantern, and the outer lead-cover- However, the three chief opera
Mr. Baldwin, he propbested, a wet afternoon, he entered answered: "I feel like opening a domed shell that we see from tions carried out in this recon- would succeed to his father's seat room where Monty Corry was bottle of champagne, at: 'Bewdley' and do little else amusing the ladies with a banjo Such are the folites of the wise.the street. The brick cone rests struction were the binding te than vote for his party. Of Lord and steps that Leslie Henson I will ond by a story Againat my on the haunches of the inner gether of the inner and outer Birkenhead's mental calibre, might have envied. That even self. When I left Wellington, come like a huge candle-extin- domes by means of 4-inch stain- which is really extraordinary, ho ing the great Sphinx overwhelmed cetat. 18, my tutor presented me guisher, and it mounts an to sups leas stool bars, the strengthening discerned little but the pertness the gay young Irishman by saying with a breakfast-pet accompanied port the wooden strutting for the of the main supporting plers by and fluency of the ordinary suc in sepulchral tones, "You must by a latter which ended thus outer dome as wall as the atone forcing in liquid cement under cessful barrister who subsides come and be my impresario,hope you will be a good citizen, as planters which alone weighs 700 pressure, and the restating-of-the Into à puleme Judgeship.
All she world knows how that know you will be a great and tone. The gater drum has very cutward thrust of the drums by partnership succeeded. But it was Why I am neither. I de Kipling little to do except take the weight extra chains of stainless, steal.—
would say "another story."...
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