CECIL RHODES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 19, 23 September 1913, Page 5

CECIL RHODES.

SOME PERSONAL MEMOIRS.

BY HIS SECRETARY

I I>v Electric Telegraph—Copyright] I'imes—Sydney Sun Special Cables. (Received 8 a.m.)

London, September

The Life of Cecil. Rhodes by his confidential secretary has been published. It shows that the shades of Caesar, Napoleon, and Give haunted the highways of his mind. He considered himself like the old Roman Emperor, Hadrian. A friend once surprised Rhodes standing stroking his nose before the portrait of the Kmperor. He carried Meditations of Marcus Aurelius always, and Gibbon was his favourite reading. He had authorities quoted in "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' 'translated absolutely unabridged and fittingly bound in uniform red. lie «as a valiant trencherman and cut great hunks of meat off a joint. He liked champagne in a tumbler and would take live or six glasses of Kummel after meals. He smoked innumerable cigarettes until bed time.-