New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-30

In
Coroi'' - ,,,or Of names likely 10 III
.erast Americans except Us pu.
~.torod IN my last two letters
- arc some. and there are ~
. not likely TO attract Americans
. he better known TO theih'
-. Cor their own sakes or oy ue-
-. Among the latter must De reVN-
,bo Earl of Shaftesbury VINO is
bracketed with Lord Kitchener as ne"
v,irbt Of II. Patrick. now descrlOeu %
80 ..axt-a" knights His place as Loru
,,bar,berlain 10 the Queen and otherwise
g. high place. But he is ninth earl
Ii, that line of which Sir Anthony ASH
lev Cooper was first Baron and then Earl
eorevor ~ be remembered as one OF the
"Cabal" ministry and as LORD hlsh
chancellor: concisely described as
statesman who during the stuart
troubles sided first with the King, then
with the Parliament and finally with
rne Restoration. "Cabal' is not q IRA
grant memory. but this Lord Shaftesbury
was the author of the Habeas Corpus
set and Of a bill 20 make the judges m
dependent of the Crown; two Of the great
safeguards Of liberty in this kingdom.
independent of the Crown the judges
have remained, but to-day II Is a ques-
ton how far they may continue 10 be
trdependent Of His Majesty's Principal
Secretary Of state, in the person 81 Mr.
winston Churchill, who has not shrunK
from casual censures upon the judges IN
Parliament. where they do not sit ana
cannot answer unless an address 10 the
Crown for their removal be brought IN.
Not less likely 70 appeal 20 Americans
than this blend Of ancient and modern
history is the memory Of the seventh
Earl. grandfather 10 the present re
nawned TO all time as a true philan-
thropist.
II was made a complaint against the
authorities responsible for the selection
of the six or seven thousand persons
present in the Abbey at the Coronation
that some Of the chief forces and glOries
of the reign We're left out Science. Art.
Literature and so on We're omitted or in
adequately represented. But they have
Tot been omitted from this long cata-
logue ol Coronation hOnors. Besides,
many such men We're present by virtue
Of other distinctions. as members Of
Parliament, as peers. as baronets, as
yrirv councillors and for other good ana
sufficient reasons. Some others now ap-
pear with some of these new decorations
and new titles 20 that respect which the
Eriton awards 10 those whom the Sow
er-.gu thinks iit 10 distinguish in one
way OF another. Two Of the best names
among men now living. learned in the
law and especially in the theory and
science Of law. whether domestic or in
ttrnational. are those Of Sir William
Arson and Sir Frederick Pollock. Both
are now made Privy Councillors. Sir
William Ansons titles were already
many: Warden Of All Souls College at
oxford late Vice-ChancellOr OF that an
# oieut university. reader in Civil and Eng
tsh law and VI. p. Tor the University Of
oxford. than whom there is perhaps no
higher authority, in the House Of Com
mons OF cut Of il. on his own subjects.
lf the arts OF the politician he has none;
which is one Of the reasons why the
house in which mere politics do too
r,-,qb rreya- elbows him o. nec,,li,r 70
spect
Sir Fredericl, Po11ocl, is tho so, Of
that Sir Frederick Pouocl, second Bar-
ouet. who was Queens Rerner7braDcer
translator of Dante. and a pleasant host
in bvgoue davs. one Of those me, of
whom those who knew hin, have an af-
f-ctiorate memoir r was NJ his +ai,Ia
in his horne m lIon+as,,,. souara tbat
Lord Teurvson made thar concise re-or+
10 Lord Houghton which I quoted wears
ago in reply % Houghton.s threat 10
repub,ish Tennyson's earlier suppressed
roens. You Beast" which we who
heard in all Thought explicit and final
think / did not then give YOU Sir Fred
erick's account of his wife as a lady de-
voted 10 the drama who had been to
various watering places in search Of the
best air.
"Bgt 1 always found that the air
which suited her best was the air Of the
Theatre Francois
That was enough 10 immortalize him.
The son lis more serious. in whom YOU
might find an inconsistency between his
m.-cness Of manner and the intellectual
authority he Yields In the graver mat
ters VI the law. He is one Of few lawyers
who can eXpOund the mysteries OF that
science with such lucid force as TO be d