New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
cAnglo-cAmerican Memories
Copyright 1909. by George W. smalisy.,


| doing for ten minutes. But late as we are there
Is one thing you must see"
And took him 20 the hall where stand those
Two ngures in damascened armor inlaid with
gold Anne de AIOntmorenci and the Constable
de Bourbon. whom a Herbert OF the sixteenth
century had taken prisoners. They woke the
soldier in this dusty traveller.
If ] were Frenchman think should try
TO get them back"
10 has been tried. One OF their descendants
offered 100000 for the pair. but you see they
are still here"
We found the vest Of the company at table
where place next his hostess was waiting for
HIM II you had seen Lord Kitchener for the
hrst time you would have felt that his toilet did
not much matter The mans personality was
The thing There are many men who produce
| an impression Of power but with this man #
was military power. You could not take him for
anything but a soldier Not at all the soldier
! as ne presents himself TO the youthful magma
non tie was not in uniform-no English soldier
ever as except on duty on occasions OF cere-
mony But it is possible to be a soldier without
gold lace or gilt buttons and to appear 20 be-
The carriage Of his head, rising out of square
/ shoulders. announced him a soldier; so did his
pale gray-blue, steel blue eyes, and the air Of
commando quite unconscious air. for the sim
I
anything about him It has been said he is not
& natural leader Of men, not a man whom other
men follow in the field just because they cannot
help it; that he does not inspire" his soldiers
doubt II; sut even were it so he is a man
whose orders other must obey when they
are sent. His pale steel blue eyes have in them
the hard light of the desert. believe in fact
the light Of the desert. which we consider a
poetic thing. injured his eyes. But there is in
them that Gar off look Of one whose sight
has ranged over great spaces for great intervals
OF time The races Of Southeastern Europe and
Of Central Asia have II. There has been seen
| in London beautiful girl who has it; gazing
out, from the graceful movement Of the waltz,
on distant horizon much beyond the walls OF
ballroom.
Yet as Lord Kitchener sits there talking AT
luncheon the hardness Of the face softens. The
merciless eyes grow kindly and human you
may forget. if you like the frontal attack at
| Paardeberg and the corpse-strewn plains Of
! Omdurman, and .gemember only that an English
= gentleman who has made study Of the science
OF war sits there, devoting himself to the enter
! tainment Of two English ladies' It is q picture
which has charm Of its own And it is a
/ Kitchener OF whom you hear not too often. That
1 IS why you hear OF him in these social circum-
/ stances from me- Most men have human side
TO them. Even *" has. and sometimes allows
/ il 70 be seen
He had human side when he departed with
OUT leave from the Military Academy at Wool
|1ch 70 take look for himself at what was go
/ ing on near the French frontier IN July or Au-
gust 1870, when the Prussians were giving their
Erench neighbors lesson in the, art of war
That seemed TO young Kitchener a lesson likely
TO be more profitable than those of Woolwich;
SO he went. 1t was e grave breach Of disci-
pine never heard how the matter was set
tied. but II did not keep Kitchener out of the
I army for he entered the Royal Engineers the
next year. But imagine we all like him the
better for such an escapade Cws