LORD KITCHENER.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIX, Issue 737, 10 June 1907, Page 7

LORD KITCHENER.

* "When in 1898 was conferred the well-earned peerage, and Parliament publicly thanked Lord Kitchener for a national service, even the jealous Germans were compelled to admit his high military ability. How long he took to plan the .campaign he alone can tell. -'Its.' hi'i'cf duration, its complete success, won universal admiration. He is, as all the world knows, a man of deeds not words, combining the profound thinker with the man of action. He would seem to belong to the elect few to whom duty and a noble ambition suffice. His dislike of ceremonial and of praise has become a byword, and a hundred, foolish little tales — half of them, no doubt, pure invention — are told to illustrate these characteristics. Those who saw him enter London upon his return from South Africa cannot but have been struck with his air of indifference to the eager homage of the crowd. How far his jiorsoiis'.lity has captured the popular imagination the popular undergraduates of Oxford gave witty proof last year, when he was the hero of an imaginary election for the Chancellorship, most amusingly described in tlie Uuiversity magazine. ''Eveiy one in his senses trusts Lord Kitchener. He is silent in an age of loquacity; lie is thorough in the days of scamping; he is economical amidst millions of spendthrifts; lastly, he is a just man who is entirely uninfluenced either by tlie clink of gold, clamor of mobs, rustle of petticoats, or even the glitter of coronets.''