THE GREATNESS OF WILL CROOKS.
AA ith a new preface by Air. G. K. Chesterton, a seventh edition of Mr. George Haw’s Life ”of AVill Crooks. ALP., has just been issued. It is called From Workhouse to I Westminster. ’’ The greatness of j Air. Crooks.” remarks Air. Chesteri ton. " lies not in the fact that he , expresses the claim of populace i . - it is that he expressed the ' populace : its strong tragedy and ns st long farce. He is not a deina- ‘ gogue. He is not even a democrat. He is a demos ; he is the real king. I And his chief characteristic, as I [have suggested, is that he reprej sents especially those popular good j qualities which are unpopular in I modern discussion. Will Crooks jis to the ordinary conductor or t cabman exactly what Robert Burns T .\as to the ordinary but passionate peasant of the Scotch lowlands. He is a journeyman of genius. All that is good in them is better in him , but it is the same thing. Walt Whitman has perfectlv expt essed this attitude of the aver-j I age towards the fine type. They! [see themselves in him. ‘ They hard,lx know themselves, thev are sol grown. ” Air. Haw’s book does | justice to a remarkable career and a strong, courageous, and lovable character.—London correspondent.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 127, 15 May 1911, Page 7
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