A VIEW OF LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18184, 22 September 1924, Page 11

A VIEW OF LORD NORTHCLIFFE.

Air Harcourt Kitchen. in the '"Cornliill Marine." gibe's a sketch of J.ord j IS ovthcliffc. in which bu says: "Ihe: triviality. the cornmomiess. ol so -many of his mw:= with their enormous circulations ' among the voun?. iron. ::nd Nvr.mcn of Croat- Britain might make cue fionii. vet their trivia.ltv was. t..e worst to be said of t hem; they were never • lir.cntjon*. Lord . >orfeholiffo v onl'l vender U; l' ,,blle tr!f-Ui 1,1 iro-t thi'igs, but ho' would never permit' his K'.re.r.> to outrage his own entrained Puritan instinct;. Ho w.ib not', ns some h;-ve dcch-rcd;, a genius witboiii, .soul, yet it v. "curiously childish. undeveloped foul" which wis "conjoined to his quite exceptional intellect. But. though, t<.» had a soul ol «ort«. and was capable. .of yrostgenerosities Lord North rliffe w:'.s most certainly a Genius without, a .-.Purpose. He could establish the rewf-ynpets or periodicals which appea.led to his own unfurnished mind, .uid-Tna.ke them pay ps no man had ever m.-ido ephemeral literature pav before his time, yet,when t hfly hail bf»fn of,(a Wished' ho did not in the least bit know what to do with thein «\cept to 50 on mnkirjty them pay. That, " I Ten Lure to think, was t.he iragedy of his life. "He cared lif tie for money, yet it -was the. '.one thing which he vrr.s supremely competent 10 make." .