New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-12
SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE,
LORD RONALD COVERS RECORDS OF
TWENTY YEARS.

,,as,an tho reader from one country to another
with highly enivening results. Kings. queens
statesmen, great soldiers, beautiful peere'sea'
literary folk artists meet us on every page anu
of most Of them Lord Ronald has something
more or less pleasant TO say. Himself man
Of talent accomplished and cultivated an
agreeable writer and an ambitious sculptor ne
has touched life on many sides and found 1t
good
Numerous entries in this volume are devoted
10 Queen Victoria. who always had klnolg
welcome for Ronald the son of her early
friend the high minded Duchess Of Sutherland
Gentle affectionate. earnestly sympathetic IN
DAYS of sorrow is the great queen we see In
these records Expressive Of the most winning
phase of her strong character Is the IaNoii'e
text which she wrote the f1yeaf of LORD
Ronald's little Bible: Love suffereth long and
is kind" Love faileth not" The little
figure of the Queens eldest daughter. the late
Empress Frederick passes over the scene pa
tbettc in grief Il too have lost ali | held most
GEAR in the world she said weeping, as she
came from the death chamber Of the Duchess
Of Sutherland And to the reminder that she
stiIl had her daughters to comfort her. she an
swered "Oh. but what is that to him L have
lost?" This gifted brilliant little lady
was also plain. simple, almost childlike in APP
rearance but Lord Ronald shares in the often
sistible charm in manner and conversation If
wa NAV believe Gladstone. as quoted 10y Lulu
Ronald. her brother. the present King OF Eng
land. has the same attraction No royalty ne
had ever met. the old statesman declared IN ms
last days at Hawarden. had such charm anu
tact as the then Prince of Wales
An account of divers interviews with BIS
rnarck in 1890 is particularly interesting Loiu
Ronald found the prince full OF asreeaple 'a'N'
sans any note of bitterness; he did not once CIV
his visitor the least impression OF sach pl''ei
ness in his manner in what he SAID loi hio
Ice of Mace and power Lord Ronald wished
that those who believe that Bismarck oehaNeu
,,nfeelinglv TO the Emperor Frederick coulu
have heard his talk He spoke of the late Eli
naror with a tone of real affection, ana WIN
yraat regard; how marvellous was his patience
durne his terrible illness; how much ne hdu
been struck by his sweet manner when speech
less and half strangled,t he had wished 'ile
prince 10 ring of the five bells by ms peu
side. how when the prince placed MS manu- Oii
she right one the Emperor had with his klhu
look expressed his thanks" OF the Ola fhipeioi
William Bismarck spoke with more esteem IMAM
admiration-as "a grand soldier a most gen
,lernanlike old man." but not remarkable as a
statesman Il was" he said, probably the Only
arson who saw the old King robe de charn-
1r. ,,ben T WAS sent for by him late at night
and he described what change ii made IN the
annesrance of the venerable monarch TO De
minus his wig and rateler, for the whlte iochs
which appeared his head In the Gay uIle "eie
fastened TO bands" The old gentleman mao
t,een realization of the persistent hard work OF
his great minister. Il would not be IN your shli
for an the world" he often SAID TO MIN Will d
laugh Bismarck described his own years VI
mower to Lord Ronald having obliterateo TOT
and
most for: his riding, shooting music ana pam
,nc ,,ractically ceased for him. His work hau
heen like gambling a vast scale, ana lhe
stakes the prosperity, If not the very existence
of his country He discoursed to his Nlsl'or ol
MANY people he had known; he recalled the
evenings he and Disraeli passed together "heh
they talked for hours and never mentioned pom
tics: and Of Motley he spoke with deep leeiliis'
The American he said WAS consttutonall9
melancholy. and always looked on the dark side
Of things
Two wears ago Lord Ronald met Cecil Rhodes
az an English country house. and found it i'm
nossihle not TO yield the mans charm Rhodes
was then only forty-five but looked quite sixty
..+be face heavy and furrowed, and the hair very
gray
We had some pleasant talk together; he is
keenly interested in classical story, or rather IN
history, and especially in Hadrlan NE w
talked Of the bronze horses at St Mark 8 he
would have il that they had been origlhaily
placed in some Greek town-Delphl. ne thousht;
+ made so bold as dispute this, and II ended
on our betting on il; if i lost was to give MN
a coin of Hadran; if i won he would give me
one or name some mountain in South AFRICA
after me / believe / have won the bet, but as
vet have not been able TO convince the Colos-
sus OF this. - Al, 49,.
20 10 morning service Little Johnnie Caven-
dish aged five on being told by him that he
would not go to church, as he had cold; but
he a
should go received from Johnnie an incredu-
5ore pooh pooh,v-the first time probably that
Rhodes had been pooh-pooh d,
nm sunday afternoons in country houses) In the
gardens and looked in al the stables. hhoueS
is much interested in flowers as well as roman
anonerors He is unlike any one that one
has ever known: his boyishness OF spirit ana
manner is very captivating When WIN MN
one feels in the presence Of a maker OF history,
If an epoch making INDIVIDUALITY
Lord Ronald has later mention Of call
upon Rhodes in London when the Colossus
showed him a large number OF big wooden boxes
fun of type printed translations of classic au-
thors. mostly histories. For these special VOL
umes Rhodes had paid Hurst & Blackett the
comfortable Of $4,000.
OF many journeys on the Continent these
diaries tell; and apropos of such travel there
ought to be repeated the anecdote solemnly told
by Count Palffy. an Austrian diplomat. He
amused the company by saying that In Hun
gary when an Englshman arrives. he is at once
discovered TO have come. even before he is seen,
by his smell, The Englshman has arrived
cry his hosts. we smell the Englishman. The
count went to explain that this peculiar
Britannia aroma is contained in the clothes of
the islander and il seems to consist of MKT
IRE OF the smell of coal. fog and damp-ingredi-
snts produced by the English and especially
the London atmosphere" One Of Lord Ronald's
expeditions to the island of Guernsey. where
he visited Victor Hugo's house-whose rooms,
full OF medieval furniture. had the look of a