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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



impeding' the free flow of the helpful 

 sympathy and confident intercourse be- 

 tween man and man. But how could 

 anything- be done ? It was hard to say, 

 beyond endeavouring, each in his own 

 sphere, to be as helpful, as loving, as 

 kind, and as sympathetic as he knew 

 how. Yet how trivial seemed everything 

 you could do ; how infinitesimal the ut- 

 most that any individual could achieve ! 

 But when in this desponding mood, 

 Lowell's memorial verses to W. Lloyd 

 Garrison inspirited me as with the blast 

 of a trumpet." 



CARDINAL MANNING. 

 Father's friends were legion, but 1 

 never heard him speak of anyone in 

 such loving terms as he did of Cardinal 

 Manning, unless perhaps it were Cathe- 

 rine Booth, the late General's sainted 

 wife. Although the Cardinal and father 

 differed widely on many things, they 

 both had a large charity for others' be- 

 liefs, and both were consumed with 

 great love and pity for the fallen and 

 the outcast. Manning was a veritable 

 tower of strength to father during the 

 stormy time of the Maiden Tribute and 

 other crusades he carried through. His 

 death in 1892, that terrible year when 

 the influenza first swept as a plague 

 through England, moved him as no 

 other did, save that of Gordon at Khar- 



toum. 



GENERAL GORDON. 



Father always regarded himself as 

 responsible for Gordon being sent to 

 the Sudan, and there is no doubt had 

 he not published his famous interview 

 with the General, Gordon would have 

 entered the service of the King of the 

 Belgians. The two had much in corn- 

 men, and before he left England for 

 what proved to be his death, Gordon 

 gave father his little volume of Thomas 

 a Kempis, which had been with him 

 through many a dangerous expedition. 

 Our Chief was ever a good fighter, and 

 never failed to support Gordon during 

 his life and to defend his memory. One 

 of his recent articles was a review of 

 Lord Cromer's book on Egypt, in which, 

 with a full knowledge of all the facts, 

 he scathingly exposed the way in which 

 the great Consul had hampered and 



hindered Gordon and his plans — actions 

 which resulted in the death of Gordon 

 and the loss of the Sudan 



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Oliver Cromwell's pistol, a small re- 

 plica of the Gordon statue in Trafalgar 

 Square (the gift of Lord Esher), a 

 " Brown Bess " from the Crimean war,, 

 and a huge skull made of papier mache. 

 were prominent in his room at the office. 

 The first-mentioned came to him 

 through the Ireton family and was 

 much prized, the last was a relic of the- 

 Pall Mall Gazette. The Chief was the 

 creator of much of the new journalism, 

 and the days when he occupied the edi- 

 torial chair in Northumberland-street 

 were stirring indeed. The skull in 

 question was one of a dozen he had 

 made, and induced several sandwich- 

 men to wear, to advertise a review in the 

 P.M.G. of Stevenson's " Body Snatcher." 

 This brilliant idea was scotched by the- 

 police, who refused to allow such fear- 

 some things to parade the streets of 

 London. 



EXECUTOR OF RHODES' MILLIONS. 



A large, framed engraving of Cecil 

 Rhodes, a bust of Cardinal Manning, 

 and a perfect gallery of photographs of 

 notable men and women filled the sanc- 

 tum. Mr. Rhodes was frequently at the 

 office. He and the Chief were firm 

 friends. I remember the Colossus com- 

 plaining to father that he had put him 

 on a pedestal, and idealised him in his 

 writings till he was forced to try and 

 live up to the standard thus set. Many 

 and long were the discussions they had. 

 It is well known now of course that for 

 many years father was the sole executor 

 of Rhodes' millions. It was good to 

 find how all father's South African 

 friends stuck to him, although no one 

 opposed the war against the Boers more 

 fiercely than did he. He lost no true 

 friend on the British side, and gained a 

 host amongst the Boers. One of his 

 greatest friends was trapped in Lady- 

 smith, where he was in command of the 

 cavalry. Rhodes himself was besieged 

 in Kimberley, and Dr. Jamieson, Mr. 

 Beit and many others were all deeply 

 concerned in the war and the intrigues 



