CECIL RHODES.
CONSIDERED HIMSELF TO BE LIKE HADRIAN. '•■* ' 'Timet'—'Sydney Sun' Special Cables. (Received Sept. 23, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 22. The "Life of Cecil Rhodes," by his confidential secretary, has been published. It shows that the shades of Caesar, Napoleon, and Olive haunted the highways of his mind. He considered himself like Hadrian. A friend once surprised Mr Rhodes standing and stroking his nose before a portrait of that Emperor. He carried "The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius" always. Gibbon was favourite reading. Rhodes had the authorities quoted in "The Decline and Fall" translated absolutely unabridged. The books were fittingly bound, uniformly in red. Mr Rhodes was* a valiant trencherman; he would ctfb great hunks of meat off a joint. He liked champagne in' a tumbler, and would take five or six glasses of kummel after meals. He smoked innumerable cigarettes until bod-time.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 September 1913, Page 5
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