New-York tribune., 1902-01-13
LORD ROSEBERY. .
MAGNETISM OF THE LIBERAL LEADER
SOME PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS.
P. o'Connor. in Mainly About People.


T. P. O'Connor. in Mainly About People.
popular attention and popular faTor IN fashion
nat 95nHr men men 6ann9t reachm9ther men men " ~h9 q m n
better than. the popular idol? There were many
the man in the street was Lord Beaconsfeld. II
Eon G9 mo- not know the facts Of real lie and the
believed that the idol of the English crowd could
man the 1erg Gn pas Of
nus ms being % Ard yet remember the day when dur,
the Prince of Wales, the King then was. the
the huge and surging crowd was Lord Beaconsfeld,
had seat in the strand ins clio Close to Temple Bar
,h was everything to my mind in his appearance
cToHd @ IOsh' 10 have Fepeed the love OF an English
THE BEACoNsFIELD GLAMOUR.
It vas one Of the pecullarities Of Lord Beacons
English Of II 6e rea6e6 ef6 @
the most Oriental of Orientals. And the dress
says Oriental, It consisted in youth. of endless
an c be biannmera6e chains; OF silk and cambric friIls
crutch stick long before the crutch stick had be-
coIors that might have delighteS the oI Ti ~ many my
Mosaic Joseph but would have caused tortures To
me Count DOrsay of the Beerbohm Tree imper-
walking down Parliament Street in the very height
e bad d6ga1on 6sca over the Eastern Question. when
ntb nfn. OF imperial defiance and glory. and TO the
devil returned 10 earth1I remember him walking
oost 16aIiaIne9t I'll street in short, drab-colored
and a pair OF lavender kid gloves Put on top of
ment face and strong Jewish nose. and you have
a Picture f OF man who might have been the King
larly On Thanksgiving Day, he had a long whitish-
together looked like a gentleman who might have
Of the eighteenth century.
WHY THE MAN OF THE HOUR?
The magnetism OF Lord Rosebery is due. of
course, 10 entirely different causes. But the mag
once apparently re W also % without any VIM i'm
pon FGet n Tea Of & Ge sr the IN p0ea % 7I GR
: huge majorfty-and only grudgingiy representa-
an sHiy ePsg Whh hotR rs IN + n
ister IN power speaks his slightest words attain i'm
ds P0 fe Sss S0n or a9s 95o o
a Of o Dd Of fQw beings is
orq Se3q and the speed Of lightning to your most
such such power at present. and his words have to de-
eHd on IG5 his t69 6S on the their
OF OF reporters goes down TO a provincial town; the
IN e the 0sRsr eFaph Ssf wPey Pey ha
i SdoIm mas thrown down SO as 10 satisfy the avid
liable this one man is going utter; and in short
which showed that it was regarded i2r as I someP6
Of an epoch making event.
STANDING ALONE
us Is there there. any other man in the kingdom to-day
5sal.sbpGy.he 5 IS is spent force nor Mr. Balfo1rN
me he is pS6 ba not Mr.
& wnat , ne is going to say. and he certainly does
other names because have not SPACE TO- go F0
thhg4ugh thgf & them n all; have given the chief names
KKGse6gTX + Is in popular regard and expectation. and
tops them all in the interest he excites
= METEOR
and yet it is difficult TO say why it should not be
99ftlherwise 9tl1 Lord Rosebery with all the space he
good deal Of recluse. He IS one of the most most
haS
more be ST s0tuse &c than any man Of prominence in
IN IN his t solitary communing with books that often
be alone there and vice versa very often a. he spenSs
sunday .l alone in London because that happens to
town. and when. therefore. he can be certain to
that sometimes he finds any part of his own coun-
I6g to0 2o2oate6 m i7 for his taste with people who
in short. bore him. There is scarcely being more
& Re s r SeSaS SnG So oase 5s R0ps % Nabes fTe@
he is to-day at the bath in Hastngs-to-morrow at
Of MIN in Vienna. or in Paris. He keeps up several
more in BUCKS at the Durdans M on EPSON al DoWns
at his house in Berkeley Square. And it is hard
The one thing certain is that he viii never stop
very long in any Of them
AS GRAND sEIGNEUR.
These are not the arts OF a man who seeks popu-
in keeping aloof from ones fellow men-t was one
nspredNbuf on the other hand men are apt 10
be forgotten in public life when they cease to be
ceased 70 be much seen. One must. there
FORE search fc els elsewhere than In his own deliberate
mind It is not all his personality it is quite true
de @ the s a5trputes & and y many Of the ideas
he nevertheless has given up none Of the manners
and customs rs Of the great aristocrat If one 60
marks and tokens of the great noble indeed. it is
to visit some Of his residences-with the coronet
everywhere. the retinue of retainers. the ample
summer time travelling from one great house in
Brekinsh hamshire to another with positions. quite
in short ne is grand seigneur TO his finger tips
Now. England is still-in spite Of all its changes
much for the arisocrag in 6onr orgs
Els daughe G aRd get e 10 asE op h5 Gs
newly and meaniy acquired wealth But in Eng
to dGS Hss that Ra hoG Hod on tRs be
popular imagination is due in part the fact that
he IS great noble.
HIS PLACE AS AN ORATOR
But that is only small part Of his attractiveness
in the iand weaithier and more magnificent than
Be dismissed in paragraph or PERHAPS " not @tue be
noticed aluniess the language was i psTtcalarIy
can get into & the newsp9PerS 1 by tncontinency Of
Of very remarkable Intellectual gifts should al
put his orator. % as the the greatest Of these gifts;
for anG therefore say how Ra Re Rss
people there. and whether he has the same tre-
has over the beau audience M Of the House OF Commons
place there and am told that Mr. Asquith' oqS Who o.
once thrills and holds that assembly is Somewhat
lagunrions ans no depressing when he gets to the
e pop is ht m ob5 R agant 6rsv LORD o R9ssbery
quite a different being from the somewhat hesitani
speaker Of the House Of Commons. for on the plat
effective. But would put Lord Rosebery even
al aeoye him as platform orator. Perhaps the peer
moner; but anyhow. Lord Rosebery is IN many