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REVIEW OE REVIEWS. 



March 1, 1913. 



resemble Joseph Chamberlain. \\'he- 

 ther in full face or in urofile, the suocfes- 

 tion is irresistible. There is the same 

 low, broad brow, the same deep fold 

 of the upper eyelid that gives so pene- 

 trating an effect to the glance, the 

 same challenging nose — that type of 

 nose on which, as Hazlitt said, the 

 younger Pitt " suspended the House 

 of Commons " — the same full lips of 

 the rhetorician. Only about the mouth 

 is there a difference. Mr. Chamber- 

 lain's mouth is relentless. It gives 

 no relief to the combative character 

 of the face. But around Dr. ^^'ilson's 

 mouth there play the lines of gaiety 

 and laughter — the insignia of one who 

 loves a little nonsense now and then, 

 delights in limericks and droll stories, 

 IS fond of play and a good song. 

 " Even a reformer," he says, " need not 

 be a fool." And even a professor 

 need not be a dull dog. And the 

 world is never dull when President 

 Wilson bursts into it. For one thing, 

 there is sure to be a glee club, for he 

 loves singing as much as debating. 



But in spite of many marked differ- 

 ences of temperament and outlook, 

 that likeness to Mr. Chamberlain re- 

 presents one fundamental affinity. 

 The keynote of both is a certain hard 

 masterfulness. There are many ways 

 of being masterful. Gladstone was 

 masterful with a sort of God-like 

 authority. To oppose him was to 

 break the tables of the law. He was 

 clothed with the thunders of Sinai ; 

 the very heavens seemed aflame with 

 sympathetic lightnings. You felt 

 yourself a miserable worm squirming 

 before high heaven. Mr. Lloyd 

 George is the one masterful man 

 in English politics to-day ; but his 

 masterfulness exhibits itself in an 

 astonishing suppleness. He is like 

 Cobbold used to be on the football 

 field. He gets the ball at his toe, and 

 threads his way amid the crowd of 

 opponents, darting, dashing, turning, 

 twisting, but never losing his mastery 

 of the ball, or his vision of the goal — 

 a miracle of coolness and agility. Pre- 

 sident Wilson's masterfulness is like 

 that of Mr. Chamberlain — hard, comba- 

 tive, direct ; no compromise, no conceal- 



ment, no finesse, but smashing drives 

 straight from the shoulder. 



THE BATTLE OF PRINCETON. 

 Take that case which first revealed to 

 America that a man was in its midst. 

 He had just emerged defeated from his 

 memorable struggle to convert Princeton 

 University from " the best country 

 club " in the United States into a great 

 instrument of scholarship and demo- 

 cracy. He was defeated by the million- 

 aires. What !> Make a gentleman chum 

 with a mucker 'f Break down the club 

 system which divided the University 

 into gentlemen and rankers? Degrade 

 the old nobility of pork by association 

 with penniless brains? Never, NEVER. 

 XE\'ER ! The millionaires charged in 

 the sacred name of dollars — charged 

 and won. " The country is looking to 

 us as men who prefer ideas to money." 

 said Dr. Wilson, with bitter irony. 

 " After all, we are mistaken ; we prefer 

 raone}' to ideas." It was a glorious de- 

 feat : its fruit is that to-da)', four years 

 later, the victim of the millionaires is 

 President of the United States. They 

 have beaten him in a skirmish only to 

 find that they have made him their ruler 

 with the legions of American democrac}- 

 al his back. Life has great as well as 

 little ironies, and the revenges of time 

 are stranger than dreams. 



EX-SENATOR SMITH. 

 But to return to the episode. The 

 conflict had made him famous in the 

 State, and now just when his career 

 at Princeton seemed ended in failure 

 he received an invitation to become the 

 Democratic candidate for the Governor- 

 ship of New Jersey. Dr. Wilson was 

 puzzled. Ex-Senator Smith was the 

 boss of the Democratic machine, and 

 the synonym of corrupt politics, and 

 against him and all his works Dr. Wil- 

 son had waged unceasing war. What 

 did this mean ? Was ex-Senator Smith 

 hojiing to get back to the l"^nited States 

 Senate under cover of Wilson's high re- 

 putation ? He would see. Yes, he said, 

 he would stand on one condition — that 

 Smith did not. " Were he to do so 

 while I was Governor," he said, " I 

 should ha\e to oppose him. He repre- 

 sents e\ery thing repugnant to my con- 



