A STRONG NATURE.
• Possessed with very high ideals, it is probable that under almost any conditions Lord Revelstoke would have become a great figure in the financial world. Personally, ,however, 1 am persuaded that the difficult circumstances under which he commenced his business career contributed in no small degree to that strength and inflexibility of character which enclosed, and even masked to sonic extent, the charm and sweetness of his nature. In this connexion I am constrained to quote from a most charming tribute which was published in the columns of the Times of the 28rd instant, over the letter " in which the writer says :— " ' Hard ? ' a Russian once said about him (and nobody under- stood him as well as the Russians). Hard I he is as soft as velvet." He was. His heart was soft ; but the breastplate which he wore and in which he fought was made of impenetrable and untarnished steel."
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