New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-09
LONDON, Jan. 3.

TIS nv privilege to tell the story for
which the whole British Empire and
the whole world has been waiting;
A to relate, for the first time, the
aot.ils of what one feels is destined to take
;.s nlace as one of the worlds great love
romances.
Il is the story of Lord Kitchener of
Khartum, the true story of the one ro-
mantle passion for woman in the life of
tho great soldier, already his country's su-
preme military hero, to whom, In the hour
Of that country's greatest need, the nation
turned as one man, and the magic of
whose name, combined with the absolute
Genius for organization that was his, caused
a mighty army to spring, as it were, from
the ground-the army that saved Europe.
What literature of legend will be dissi-
mated as mist before the sunlight by the
revelation at last of Lord Kitchener's love
story story of love which, because of
noble sacrifice that had to be made, could
not find it's apotheosis in marriage, but
which, instead of ending or being trans
ferred, in ever so little, to another than "the
one woman became mellowed into, as it
details of it best cone of the loveliest
friendships of all time"
As this story is told there disappears,
too, the traditional Kitchener, the woman
hater." the celibate by inclination, almost
By contempt, whose coat of mail against the
shafts of Cupid has been the theme of so
many imaginative scrbes. And simulta-
neously there energies the Kitchener who
loved one woman so we'll from boyhood to
the day of his untimely and tragic death
that every other woman appealed to him in
van--appealed so vainly that the reputa
ton Of a misogynist became his in the minds
of all but the few who knew the truth.
Slenced also forever. by this publication,
will be those mythical tales, literally num-
berless, of other supposed love romances
in the life of az. of H." one of the most
papaby absurd but most frequently re-
peated picturing him the unsuccessful
and consequently embittered sutton of a
beautiful and famous Irishwoman, not un-
known to renown as fervid supporter of
the revolutionary movement in her distress
ful country These fairy tales disappear,
and with them the many deductions that
still seeking to perpetuate his false reputa-
ton as a belittler of women, were drawn,
whenever opportunity occurred, from his
words and actions, such, for example, as
MS famous admonition to the fighting men
on their way to France, that "while treating
all women with perfect courtesy" they
should "avoid any intimacy"
But it is not necessary to labor these
nh.,,nn
Kitchener, the "Man of Iron," speaks for
ITSELF The woman who as a mere girl
hrst inspired that love has been dead for
almost two years. The story could not
nave been told, certainly not with her per-
mission, during her life. 1t was unrevealed
at her death, because none of the handful
OF people to whom it was known was ready
to have it made public. Why it is told
now will become evident as the story pro-
eesds, but it may be affirmed at the outset
that the purpose in at last setting it forth
ls one OF which the great man and woman
concerned would have approved-since it
10 10 strive to achieve an object that was
nearest to the hearts of both, namely. the
welfare OF the men who sprang at Kitch-
ehers call to defend England against the
aeadliest foe with which she has been called
20 grapple in the course of her age-long
history.
All worthy OF the ardent affection OF on,
q the greatest men in modern history was
me woman beloved of Horatio Herbert
sasi Kitchener. To this every episode in
ner fragrant life bears eloquent witness
'ae was Miss Caroline L. Hutchison, and
me passed away with tragic suddenness on
seofuary "a, 1917, at ID Phillimore Gar
oens, where she had lived for many years.