LORD ROSEBERY.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 338, 12 February 1902, Page 3

LORD ROSEBERY.

Writing of Lord Rosebery, Mr T. PO’Connor states There he is, at this moment, without great office, apparently also without any immediate prospect of great office ; the political opponent of one great party, the party in power witli a huge majority—and only grudgingly representative of one other great party, which is ir opposition and in an apparently hopeless minority. • * Is there any ether man in the kingdom to-day who could excite so much attention ? Not Lord • Salisbury—he is a spent force ; nor J t\lr Balfour—he is somewhat discredit-

•ed : not Mr Chambcilain ; the public , has a certain instinct that it knows , what he is going to say, and he certaiulv does say what the public expect of him. I mention no other names because I have not space to go through them all; T have given the chief names that might he supposed tocompete with Lord Rosebery in popular regard and expectation, and it is evident to everybodv that Lord Rosebery tons " them all in the interest he excUes And yet it is difficult to say why it should not he otherwise. Lord (Rosebery, with all the space he tills in 'the public eve, is by nature and by habit a good deal of a recluse. He is one of the most omnivorous of readers for that reason is never really alone. And -thus it is that he probahlv has more of solitude than any man' of prominence in the country. So habituated lias lie become to he in M solitary communing with hooks that often lie rushes from London to th<* countrv in order to he alone fkere , t vcrsa very often he spends Sunday alone in London because that hannens to he the day tvhen most of h"i own class are out of town and when therefore, he can l>e certain to remain undisturbed. One may go further and say that sometimes he finds nart of his own country too pop- ' XVd for his taste with people tvho mav speak to him. occupy km time, •md thoughts—in short, bore him. • -There is scarcely a being more restless in Kurope ; or one who so flits ahout from place to place. He has a beautiful house in Naples ; he 1S toav at the hath in Ilastings-to-mor-?ow at the hull fight in Barcelona the next day one hears of him m Vienna, or in Paris.