MR ASQTUITH.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 5

MR ASQTUITH.

"Sir Asquith has thus been described Mr T. P. O'Connor, M.P. :— "He is still slightish ; the face has still something of the old ruddiness, but the hair is almost white, and life, with its enormous fatigues and anxieties, * has left igome of its marks upon him. He is rather below the middle height, but giveß.the impression of a well-knit and Inely-proportioHed figure. The eyes Are large, .blue, rather cold; the lips are thin, and compressed, after the fashion of men of strong will; the face is urbane,' composed, but somewhat •cold;' and there is a certain suggestion of, intellectual scorn and aloofness ' in the expression and the manner. I believe the outer reveals very much what the inner man is. Mr Asquith is warmly liked by his intimates; but he is not one of those universally popular figures which the House of Commons ■contains. He is regarded as somewhat -cold in manner, as in speech: as intellectual rather than emotional, and as perhaps, too conscious of his own undoubted superiority to the mass of men. But/ these things really do not 'count for much after all in the Parliamentary career of a man of great gifts. 1 3ktr Asquith has such transcendent abi- *" lities that he cannot help getting a great place^ whatever be the private feelings of the masses of men towards liim. in the House of Commons it is intellect that ultimately triumphs ; and thus it is that * to«day Mr' Asquith stands in so mighty.- a- position. And he has not even yet perhaps said his last word or reached his ' greatest ieight." -