The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-05
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 London, April 1.-The London morn Ing papers all comment in various terms of eulogy on the remarkable character of the munificent bequests of Cecil Rhodes, and the strong personal ity displayed in his testamentary dis positions.
 Seldom" says the Daily Chronicle, has human document of more cu- rious interest been given to the world All the romance of his character, his passion of patriotism. his ideal of pub lie service and his conception of the use of money as a means of enforcing his ideas are stamped indelibly on this testament
 The Dali Mail says: We venture to think that the testament of Cecil Rhodes will pass into the story of his life as the greatest and noblest deed he ever accomplished. The document it. self, so full of lofty ideals and noble aims, show that business-like and prac- tlcal as he was, Cecil Rhodes was one of the finest dreamers and thinkers of his or anf other age"
 The Morning Post says
 
 For the best and greatest in Cecil Rhodes is imperlshably preserved in the monument he built to himself with elaborate forethought and hlunifcent completeness
 The Standard comments upon the striking mixture of old fashioned sen timent and intensely modern feeling ex- hibited in the testament This paper expresses the opinion that the fantas- tic rules laid down for the election of scholars are likely to lead to the de- velopment of priggishness and trusts that some means will be found to elude these rules.
 The Daily Telegraph says: Even more striking than the princely munif- cence of the bequests is the high i'm perial tone in which the dead empire maker announces his intentions and desires.
 Peculiarly noticeable is the general absence of comment on MT Rhodes be quesst of scholarships to America and Germany. Except the Daily Telegraph, which describes them as most charac- terlstic." almost the only other paper touching on this subject is the Daily Express, which considers the endow- ment of American scholarships to be most remarkable, in view of the fact that Cecil Rhodes bestowed quite 50 per cent. more scholarships in the United States than in the British empire
 Great, therefore. as the imperial ele- ment of the scheme is, there seems to be meaning in 1t which is even grea t. er,' says the Daily Express, and the paper asks "does 1t not anticipate and aim al the unity of the English speak ing world?"
 In an editorial article the Times says that Cecil Rhodes has furnished a modern parallel to Caesars will as de- picted by Shakespeare. "The world will learn to-day" says the Times, ito ap- precfate as It has not done before the inner and personal character of one whom circumstances have presented rather as an abstract force There is a certain intimacy, touch of unconscious self-revelation in the provisions of Cecil Rhodes will, and the reasons given for them, which bring the man nearer to most of us in his death than he eyer was, or perhaps ever could have been. in life"
 The Times. like the other papers. merely mentions the fact that the Unit ed tates will be able to have q hundred scholars permanently at Oxford and says 1t thinks the rules for the selection of these scholars to be both curious and business-like,