The Uncrowned King and Others The Gentleman with a Duster,' whose entertaining book—''Tho Mirrors of Downing Street'? was reviewed on this page last week, makes many keen and clever observations upon Men of the Day For instance, Lord Fisher was "this dare-devil of genius, this pirate of public life"; Lord North-diffe is ''a boy full of adventure, full.of romance, full of whims'. Mr. Arthur Balfour is "at once spinsterish and architectural'; Lord Robert Cecil, "the shadow of great Statesmanship leaning aitfidently over the shoulder of! political brute force"; Mr. Winston Churchill "has loved with all his heart, with all his soul, and with all his strength three things—war, politics, and himself." Of Mr.j Asquith: 'He has never had an idea of his ow The diffused sagacity' of his mind is derived, from the wisdom of other men." And these, the first strokes in a sketch of Mr. Lloyd George: "If, you think about it, no one since! Napoleon has appeared on_ the} earth who attracts so universal an interest as Mr. Lloyd George.
A democratic age, lacking inj) colour and antipathetic to romance, somewhat obscures for us_ the achievements of this remarkable figure. He lacks only a crown, -a robe and a gilded chair easily to outshine in visible picturesqueness the great Emperor."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.