There are some men, and those the strongest sons of nature, for whom the kindest commandment is, "Uphill all the way." Mr.Asquith, both by inheritance and temperament, was designed for a strenuous life, a strenuous moral life.

He was never intended for anything in the nature of a _flaneur_.

If he had followed his star, if he had rigorously pursued the path marked out for him by tradition and his own earliest propensities, he might have been an unpleasant person for a young ladies' tea-party and an unsympathetic person to a gathering of decadent artists; he might indeed have become as heavy as Cromwell and as inhuman as Milton; but he would never have fallen from Olympus with the lightness of thistledown.
LORD NORTHCLIFFE LORD NORTHCLIFFE, FIRST VISCOUNT (ALFRED CHARLES WILLIAM HARMSWORTH) Born, 1865, in Dublin.

Educ.: in Trade Schools; trained as a book-seller, and worked in the establishment of George Newnes; LL.D., Rochester Univ., U.S.A.; Proprietor of the London _Times, Daily Mail_, and a number of other journals; Cr.Bart.in 1904; Viscount, 1917; Chairman of the British War Mission to the United States, 1917; Director of the Aerial Transport Committee, 1917; Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries, 1918.
[Illustration: LORD NORTHCLIFFE].