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CECIL AS A SPECTACLE.

He Fairly Usurps Parliament With the
Educational Bill.
The one division of this parliament is
the spectacle afforded by Lord Hugh
Cecil the youngest son of the Marquis
of Salisbury, the late and nephew of
the present premier. Lord Hugh is
practically the father of the education
al bill, which seeks efectually to
suuelch the board schools and inciden-
tally to bring all other denominations
under the sway of the Church of Eng
land. He is a typical Cecil in appear
ance and temperament. Those who are
old enough to remember his father
when he was a young man say that
Lord Hugh is the very duplicate in life
of his famous progenitor. He is the
enfant terrible of his party. and still
more of his family, though, of course,
he is idolized by his father, who looks
upon the young man as his successor
to the family honors in the political
arena.
The aged statesman has long ago
given up the hopes once centered in
Lord Cranborne, his eldest son and
| heir to the titles and estates. 1t is to
| Lord Hugh that the Cecils look for their
continued glorification. TALL, thin as a
reed, very pallid, very nervous-his
/ long thin hands shake for half an hour
/ before he begins to make a speech-he
| looks more like a pale faced hungry
curate than the free, lancing politician
of thirty-two. He has great powers of
eloquence, as did his father before him;
is unusually quick, belligerent in man
ner. unresponsive to the slightest APP
peal for moderation or reason other
than that which agrees with his own
set views. and has an unhappy manner
Of making enemies of even his most in
innate friends. 49,. -, h., ~
But he is a Cecil all over, even to the
family stoop and the shabbiress of his
clothes He was, of course, born into
politics. When he was still a youth,
he astonished his fellows at, Oxford
with his extreme Views on education
and social matters, things which one
would not have been surprised to hear
three hundred years ago, but which are
out of place and incongruous in these
days. He was presently made private
secretary to his father, who was then
foreign minister, and being whole
some Tory as we'll as his fathers son,
he was elected member for Greenwich
7 seven years ago. He represented his
electors so creditably and respectaby
. for he always managed to get his name
into the papers (thus giving Greenwich
considerable boost in its own estima-
tion), that they elected him again; and
he bids fair to represent them for the
rest of his political life, which promises
to be long, strenuous, virile and inter-
esting. 4,
The young sprig of the Cecils= has
managed to "hog' the entire season OF
, parliament for himself. He is the life
; and soul of the education bill. He.'los
| rolls it, currycombs it, grooms it
, dresses it up in all the finery Of ritual
istic oratory from day to day, ano
manages to secure dire punishment fol
those no have the ternerity to oppose
him and his friends. The house does
not know whether it ought to be afralc
of or amused at this audacious young
man. The halo of the Cecil name pro
, tects him from abuse and, by the same
token, the glory of it gives him tina
, power and leverage which another
, young man of similar precocity couit
! not command. Winston Churchill, fol
instance, having had good try at re
. peating the deeds of his father, la:
f finally subsidized into a very good ant