The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections . oral was never intended for anything in the nature of aflaneur. If he had followed his star, if he had rigorouslypursued the path marked out for him by tradition andhis own earliest propensities, he might have been anunpleasant person for a young ladies tea-party and anunsympathetic person to a gathering of decadent artists;he might indeed have become as heavy as Cromwell andas inhuman as Milton; but he would never have fallenfrom Olympus with the lightness of thistledown. LORD NORTHGLIFFE LORD NORTHCLIFFE, FIRST VISCOUNT(ALFR
The mirrors of Downing street; some political reflections . oral was never intended for anything in the nature of aflaneur. If he had followed his star, if he had rigorouslypursued the path marked out for him by tradition andhis own earliest propensities, he might have been anunpleasant person for a young ladies tea-party and anunsympathetic person to a gathering of decadent artists;he might indeed have become as heavy as Cromwell andas inhuman as Milton; but he would never have fallenfrom Olympus with the lightness of thistledown. LORD NORTHGLIFFE LORD NORTHCLIFFE, FIRST VISCOUNT(ALFRED CHARLES WILLIAM HARMSWORTH) Born, 1865, in Dublin. Educ.: in Trade Schools; trained as a book-seller, and worked in the establishment of George Newnes; ,Rochester Univ., U. S. A.; Proprietor of the London Times, DailyMail, and a number of other journals; Cr. Bart, in 1904; Viscount, 1917;Chairman of the British War Mission to the United States, 1917; Di-rector of the Aerial Transport Committee, 1917; Director of Propagandain Enemy Countries, LORD NORTHCLIFFE u. & u. CHAPTER VLORD NORTHCLIFFE ... We cannot say that they have a great nature, or strong, or weak,or light; it is a swift and imperious imagination which reigns with sovereignpower over all their beings, which subjugates their genius, and whichprescribes for them in turn those fine actions and those faults, those heightsand those littlenesses, those flights of enthusiasm and those fits of disgust,which we are wrong in charging either with hypocrisy or madness.—Vauvenargues. A great surgeon tells me he has no doubt that Carlylesuffered all his life from a duodenal ulcer. One mayspeculate, he says, on the difference there wouldhave been in his writings if he had undergone theoperation which to-day is quite common. This remark occurs to me when I think about LordNorthcliffe. There is something wrong with his health. For aseason he is almost boyish in high spirits, not only acharming and a most considerate
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