Raymond, E. T.:Uncensored Celebrities
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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: DODO PR, 244 Seiten, L=216mm, B=140mm, H=14mm, Gew.=313gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biogr… Plus…
Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: DODO PR, 244 Seiten, L=216mm, B=140mm, H=14mm, Gew.=313gr, [GR: 21600 - TB/Belletristik/Biographien, Erinnerungen], [SW: - Biography / Autobiography], Kartoniert/Broschiert, Klappentext: U N C E NpS Q RED CELEBRITIES BY E. T. RAYMOND NKW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1919 PREFACE IN the political world, as in all others, the war has created new standards, and the following sketches, slight though they be, are designed to assist the process of revaluation. They are not meant for the hero-worshipper. The Hero as Politician, always rare, is not discoverable just now by the present writer. THE MAN of the newspaper articles has still to appear, though he has been regularly announced every three months or so. For the most part one can only say of political things that they have got themselves transacted somehow. But while, like the angry ape, certain politicians have played fantastic tricks before high heaven others have emerged with credit from the supreme test, and still others have meant exceedingly well. In his task of classification the author has paid scant attention to party labels, and has always preferred the wider to the narrower loyalty. The most important question to be asked of any public man at this time, Is he a good Englishman f cannot be resolved by purely intellectual tests. Judge Jeffreys used to say that he could smell a certain kind of person a mile off. The present 5 PREFACE writer can claim no such delicacy of perception yet he is not ashamed to admit that in some doubtful cases he has relied chiefly on his nose. With one or two exceptions, the impressions here assembled were first published in Everyman. CONTENTS MR. LLOYD GEORGE - - - - 9 SIR EDWARD CARSON - - - - 27 MR. ASQUITH - - - - - 35 THE EARL OF DERBY - - - - 48 VISCOUNT GREY OF FALLODON - - 54 LORD ROBERT CECIL - - - 62 MR. BALFOUR - ... . . - 69 SIR F. E. SMITH - - - - - 75 MR. BONAR LAW - - -- 81 MR. REGINALD MCKENNA - - - 89 LORD NEWTON AND OTHERS - - - 96 MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL - - - - 103 MR. HAROLD Cox - - - - - no VISCOUNT MILNER - - - - - 118 MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY WEBB - - - 126 GENERAL SMUTS - - - - - 132 MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON - 141 MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY - 147 THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE - - - 152 VISCOUNT NORTHCLIFFE - - - - 159 MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN - - - - 166 THE MORNING POST AND MR. H. A. GWYNNE - 172 MR. WALTER LONG - - - - 178 LORD BEAVERBROOK - - - - - 184 EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON - - - 191 7 CONTENTS - PACK VISCOUNT HALDANE -----197 LORD BURNHAM AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 2 03 MR. W. M. HUGHES -----208 SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES - - - 216 MR. H. A. L. FISHER .... 222 SIR MARK SYKES - . . . 228 LORD BUCKMASTER OF CHEDDINGTON - - 233 MR. SAMUEL - GOMPERS-238 UNCENSORED MR. LLOYD GEORGE IT is not very material to this or any other generation that Mr. Lloyd George has been filmed. But posterity, in its study of this time, will be grateful that he has been painted by a man of genius. To our successors most that has been written con cerning this eminent man must make for sheer be wilderment. It is hot ice and wondrous strange snow. y They will read of a white negro, a dwarf ten feet high, a demagogue who tyrannized over the mob, a sycophant who bullied and plundered the rich, Many quite rational people believe that Shakespeare never wrote the plays and sonnets simply because the only dependable portrait of him is that mournful Droeshout engraving showing what Gainsborough called as damned stupid a head as ever I saw. What degree of misjudgment might not be possible to men examining, after the lapse of centuries, a newspaper illustration of Mr. George opening a bazaar orpatting an election baby But Mr. Augustus Johns notable canvas will tend to avoidance of the grosser kind of error concerning Mr. Lloyd Georges character. Just as the painting of Vandyke tells us more about the essential Strafford than all the careful pages of Clarendon, so this remarkable study reveals the true personality of Mr. George better than many volumes of Hansard and the Parliamentary sketch-writers. In regarding 9 10 VNCENSORED CELEBRITIES it one begins to understand why the subject stands where he is to-day... U N C E NpS Q RED CELEBRITIES BY E. T. RAYMOND NKW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1919 PREFACE IN the political world, as in all others, the war has created new standards, and the following sketches, slight though they be, are designed to assist the process of revaluation. They are not meant for the hero-worshipper. The Hero as Politician, always rare, is not discoverable just now by the present writer. THE MAN of the newspaper articles has still to appear, though he has been regularly announced every three months or so. For the most part one can only say of political things that they have got themselves transacted somehow. But while, like the angry ape, certain politicians have played fantastic tricks before high heaven others have emerged with credit from the supreme test, and still others have meant exceedingly well. In his task of classification the author has paid scant attention to party labels, and has always preferred the wider to the narrower loyalty. The most important question to be asked of any public man at this time, Is he a good Englishman f cannot be resolved by purely intellectual tests. Judge Jeffreys used to say that he could smell a certain kind of person a mile off. The present 5 PREFACE writer can claim no such delicacy of perception yet he is not ashamed to admit that in some doubtful cases he has relied chiefly on his nose. With one or two exceptions, the impressions here assembled were first published in Everyman. CONTENTS MR. LLOYD GEORGE - - - - 9 SIR EDWARD CARSON - - - - 27 MR. ASQUITH - - - - - 35 THE EARL OF DERBY - - - - 48 VISCOUNT GREY OF FALLODON - - 54 LORD ROBERT CECIL - - - 62 MR. BALFOUR - ... . . - 69 SIR F. E. SMITH - - - - - 75 MR. BONAR LAW - - -- 81 MR. REGINALD MCKENNA - - - 89 LORD NEWTON AND OTHERS - - - 96 MR. WINSTON CHURCHILL - - - - 103 MR. HAROLD Cox - - - - - no VISCOUNT MILNER - - - - - 118 MR. AND MRS. SIDNEY WEBB - - - 126 GENERAL SMUTS - - - - - 132 MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON - 141 MR. HORATIO BOTTOMLEY - 147 THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE - - - 152 VISCOUNT NORTHCLIFFE - - - - 159 MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN - - - - 166 THE MORNING POST AND MR. H. A. GWYNNE - 172 MR. WALTER LONG - - - - 178 LORD BEAVERBROOK - - - - - 184 EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON - - - 191 7 CONTENTS - PACK VISCOUNT HALDANE -----197 LORD BURNHAM AND THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - 2 03 MR. W. M. HUGHES -----208 SIR AUCKLAND GEDDES - - - 216 MR. H. A. L. FISHER .... 222 SIR MARK SYKES - . . . 228 LORD BUCKMASTER OF CHEDDINGTON - - 233 MR. SAMUEL - GOMPERS-238 UNCENSORED MR. LLOYD GEORGE IT is not very material to this or any other generation that Mr. Lloyd George has been filmed. But posterity, in its study of this time, will be grateful that he has been painted by a man of genius. To our successors most that has been written con cerning this eminent man must make for sheer be wilderment. It is hot ice and wondrous strange snow. y They will read of a white negro, a dwarf ten feet high, a demagogue who tyrannized over the mob, a sycophant who bullied and plundered the rich, Many quite rational people believe that Shakespeare never wrote the plays and sonnets simply because the only dependable portrait of him is that mournful Droeshout engraving showing what Gainsborough called as damned stupid a head as ever I saw. What degree of misjudgment might not be possible to men examining, after the lapse of centuries, a newspaper illustration of Mr. George opening a bazaar orpatting an election baby But Mr. Augustus Johns notable canvas will tend to avoidance of the grosser kind of error concerning Mr. Lloyd Georges character. Just as the painting of Vandyke tells us more about the essential Strafford than all the careful pages of Clarendon, so this remarkable study reveals the true personality of Mr. George better than many volumes of Hansard and the Parliamentary sketch-writers. In regarding 9 10 VNCENSORED CELEBRITIES it one begins to understand why the subject stands where he is to-day...<
