He 'voices,' as he would say himself, the opinion of the average man on every subject.

He might be a leader-writer on the _Mail_ or _Times_.

What do you know of the average man or of his opinions?
But the man in the street, as he is called to-day, can only learn from the man who is just one step above himself, and so the George Curzons come to success in life.

That, too, is the secret of the popularity of this or that writer.

Hall Caine is an even larger George Curzon, a better endowed mediocrity." "But why should he have fame and state and power ?" Oscar cried indignantly.
"State and power, because he is George Curzon, but fame he never will have, and I suspect if the truth were known, in the moments when he too comes face to face with his own soul, as you say, he would give a good deal of his state and power for a very little of your fame." "That is probably true, Frank," cried Oscar, "that is almost certainly the crumpled rose-leaf of his couch, but how grossly he is over-estimated and over-rewarded....