AN ENGLISH POLITICAL LEADER.
! j There was a time when it seemed the uulikeliest thing in the world that Robert J Arthur Talbot Gascoigne-Cecil should , ever come to be the third Marquis of . Salisbury. He was boru a younger son, ; and, it is said, with something leas than • the ordinary portion of the younger son ) of a great family. However that be, Lord • Robert Cecil, as ho was then known, ' attached himself to journalism, and showed that the accident of birth had lost a vigorous writer to the English Proas. Both as Lord Robert Cecil and as Lord Cranbourne, which courtesy title he assumed on the death of his elder brother unexpectedly making him heir to the narquisate, he ruffled the ' level flow of the Quarterly Rwieiv with some exceedingly trenchant writing. Even to this day, when some disquisition on the political constitution unusually strong appears in the Quarterly, the knowing ones always discover the hand of Lord Salisbury. In another line of i literature, the circular to the foreign i courts on the Treaty of San Stefano, with which Lord Salisbury inaugurated hii
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Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3330, 30 May 1885, Page 3
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184AN ENGLISH POLITICAL LEADER. Timaru Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 3330, 30 May 1885, Page 3
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