Nov. 16.
The death of Field Marshal Lord Roberts plunges the whole Empire in grief. Other men have done as great services for their country or greater, in war as in peace. Yet of no other man have his compatriots thought quite as they do of Lord Koberts, and no other man has more fully deserved the universal regard and esteem in which Lord Roberts's name is held. It is not so much as the great strategist and fighter that we think of him. Without derogation to his fame, the Briish nation has produced greater.
sat it has never surely produced so perfect a character, which, in very perfection, never lost touch on the sympathy of weaker vessels. In an extraordinary degree Lord Roberts combined strength and gentleness, prevent-to the world the unconscious nbodiment of those qualities which are held up as the ideal for every British schoolboy to follow. Had his unstinted warnings in recent years been followed, that the enemy would one day be in the gate and find us unready, it is possible that the present war would not have been fought. It was characteristic of Lord Roberts that no one ever heard him say, "I told you so,"' and that the task riginal Original from
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