22 FEBRUARY 1902, Page 19

THE IDEAL LEADER.

[" The sole chance for any alternative leader who calls himself an Imperialist is by some means to bring himself before the public in vivid antithesis to Mr. Chamberlain."—Westminster Gazette.]

FOLLOW, if such your aim, the Titan's* plan; Make from your motley herd your model man; From each mean creature take the meanest park, Here the small mind, and there the craven heart; Let one a tongue with poisoned fangs supply, This the rank spleen, and that the jaundiced eye; And one, more base, methinks, than all beside, A soul that loathes the patriot's loyal pride, Born of the lion, leads the jackals' cry, Approves the slander and adopts the lie. A. J. 0.