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SATURDAY. MARCH 26. 1921.

themselves the law had him 6rmly by the log.

MIND AND STYLE. His faithfulness to the law was bost bath for himself and for the country, especially if, as is hoped, The following Character-sketch it takes him to the Lord Chief of the Attorney-General, Sir Justice-ship. He will be an ideal Gordon Hewart, recently ap of the law and for the power of Lord Chief, both for bis mastery peared in the Times from the pen of a Student of Politics, who expressing it with the exactness considered that Sir Gordon would born orator. Sir Gordon Howart of a scholar and the dignity of a make an ideal Lord Chief Justice. The article has an added interest has carried orderliness of mind because the Attorney-General and the gift of style to the point has just been appointed to that

of genius. Ho has not the high office consequent upon Lord sonority of Mr. Asquith, but ho Roading having become Viceroy has greater subtlety, as sure a of India.

grasp of masses of detail, The Attorney-General has not equal tightness and more plasti. escapad the suspicion that always city in argumont. His speech is attaches to lawyers who

smooth and pure; the words fall politicians, but it would be juster unerringly into their place, not to regard him as a politician who fluency of Lord Haldane, but eyes in tho somewhat shambling is a lawyer. The first kind prac. tise the law for their conscienco right and shoulders back like toy soldiers. Even his impromptu and take to politics as the only sort of lay preaching whose peeches still manage to convey rewards are not laid up in heaven. the same impression of perfect The second and less numerous prose, and when he is arguig you kind, to which Sir Gordon Hewart are los: unless you dispute the bolongs, practise the law for its premises, for there is never rewards, and politics for the nick in the smooth surface of the recreation and, if possible, the

development. approval of their conscience.

He was a politician before he was a lawyer, and he must have writ- ten as many nowspaper articles

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These qualities are exceeding

useful in politics, and the Government used to bring him in like a famous consultant, good bedside manner and all, to their desperate cases.

Bitt they aro indispensable in the law. For supreme success in politics you must

visione, trances, divination, anacolutha, leaps. Sir Gordon Hewart was over guilty of these things, and when he talks at large on general! politics, it is to the talk of other men as a journey on the under- ground to an air-flight. He is

act and helpful but not inspir

before he took office Churchill since. He took to the law when he was no longer quite young, for the sake of liberty and fees, but though he presumably got the fees it is doubtful whether he captured much liberty. The life of a barrister is not, it has been said, a bed, of roses, for either it is all bed and no roses, or if he succeeds, it is all roses and no bed. And becoming a law officer of the Crown does not mond matters in that respect,ing. But in law these limitations aro virtues, and after all even munch-abused and

politics is building as well us dosigning

for these

strangely envied men do twice the work for half the fees and in addition have politics thrown in as an extra shift. No mat can court politics and law quite impartially. The bias to the one or the other must come sooner or later, and in Sir Gordon Hewart'e

have definitely towards the law.

POLITICAL OIFTS.

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Let it never be forgotten, whon we contrast the lawyer and the British liberties is raised on the politician, that the edifice of foundations of the common law, and that the great classic chartera of English political liberty have no more passion and imagination in then than a statement of It is a pity from some points of claim. A man is not necessarily view, for he has political gifts lost in politics when he becomes that have not found full expres-Lord Chief Justice, and there is sion in the Coalition. In his an immense mass of work crying younger days he used to plead for out to be done on the boundaries the cause of constitutional reform of law and politics. Sonic one recently that Sir in India and liked bis fling at the suggested Liberal Imperialists; and in Man-Gordon Hewart would be the man chester they still talk of the to carry out the work of codific masterly speeches in which heation if this is ever seriously to presented the Free Trade case at bo undertaken in this country. a by-election there.

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is instinctive with a Liberal. To these ardent souls his Attorney- Generalship, of which one who knew said recently that never had the Crown been so well served in this office before, seems no better than a series of appearances in behalf of Dora's drunks and disorderlies, and he bus certainly been unfortunate in some of the legislation put under his care.

On the other band, it is only fair to the Government to add y was), and secondly, as a to the Liberal faith in its old that Sir Gordon Hewart might necessary stage in the develop forms. Under what banner it will have been Home Secretary if he ment of the Liberal faith itself, ultimately

range itself had wished, and perhaps at one They believed that the moment can say for certain. It time Irish Secretary too. He the faith hardened into dogma it was right to decline both, for he must die here, as it has all but is rather too literal for Ireland died abroad, and they thought and too sceptical for the Home that in a few years a new Liberal Office. The War Office might em would emerge, including the new Coalition banner . with! have suited him, for he has an best elements of both parties and Mr. Lloyd George or someone excellent bead for business, and even possibly a wing of the Labour else leading. Personalities apart, the India Office certainly would, men. It was because he stood there is precious little between for no one bas a keener sympathy for this belief that Sir Gordon the Coalition Liberals and their with the cause of constitutional Hewart went down to the Liberal old friends, who have paid them reform or more dislike for the meetings at Leamington last year the compliment of iaritating their arrogance of a race ascendancy. and was in effect drummed out of policy and reshaping the old But these offices would have the Party,

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