The herald., 1897-01-24
INTERESTING .D1zzx."


His volunfnous Papers BY No Means
Nearing Tine of Publication.
There will be NO complete portrait or
Lord Beaconsneld yet awhile. Mr. Green:
wood says in the November "Cornhill."
All thought Of publishing his life or any
doned long ago, says Mr.. Greenwood, by
him who. with most authority for the
task. is BY far the most competent for
the performance. The enormous mass OF
Lord Beaconsfeld's papers, and the finished
state Of confusion In which they were left,
may have had something to do, we are told,
with a decision taken on higher grounds.
Mr.. Greenwood has heard that Lord Beac-
onsfeld seems to have destroyed nothing
like q letter. nothing In the least docu-
mentary. that ever came into his hands.
Meanwhile Mr.. Greenwood continues to
give to the public interesting views OF the
statesman whom he admires so consistently.
Few would think this an appropriate time
for applauding Lord Beaconsfield's policy
In the East. Mr.. Greenwood bravely main
tains that events have confirmed tho wis
dom Of his anti-Russian policy. and that
We are suffering to-day beacuse he was
checked in its development. 1t is told by
Mr.. Greenwood how the whole plan OF a
campaign in Asia Minor was worked out,
how Iscanderoon was to be the port OF
debarkation for British forces, and how
they would have taken up their main posi-
tion along the Asian shore of the Bos-
phorous: and Lord Beaconsdeld is repre-
scented as saying. not impassivlely as we
have been accustomed to think OF him
speaking, but "finging out his hands"
you know what happened. My colleagues
would not have It. What you don't know
is that at last was so much alone that
met"
Ne H.>.-->.S An. - . s.a,e In which
he had the good fortune to be alone with
Lord Beaconsfeld, quite uncon1rmatory
Of the notion that Dlsraeli wac without
personal Affection" The story Is told
throughout as Of Mr.. Disraen. but at the
time he had ceased to bear that name. 1t
was after tho Russo-Turkish war. Mr..
Greenwood found the statesman at 10 Down
ing street in the early morning when he had
Just opened his newspaper.
His first word was You have seen the
bad news? The voice was so agitated-
his, Mr.. Disraeli's--that wondered for an
instant what national calamity I had over
looked and was now to hear OF. You know
that Home is gone" he added, and then n
the same unexpected voice broke into many
expressions Of aftectionate admiration. The
word that struck me most was I destined
him to great commando So speaking he
sat down by the dreside as II quite over
come. There he was silent, and the silence
was such that for q time I did not like to
look in his direction. When did so saw
that the hands extended on his knees were
tapping up and down from the wrist in
we'll known movement of distress. and that
tears were rolling down the awful ruin
which even in those days his face had be-
come. Yet it was an absolutely impassive
face at that moment still. His tears were
the only sign OF 1t; rain upon the gray de-
faced features of the Sphinx"
It was Colonel Home whom Lord Bea-
consfeld had sent into Asia Minor, and his
grief at the check to the policy, of which
Home was evidently to be one of the in
srruments, were. says his visitor. "stil
green.'