readers, as bearing testimony to American opinion on Lord Kitchener
and American interest in the South African War and sympathy for us. I therefore venture" to forward it to you foi insertion in the Spectator $13.ould it seem to you advisable to do so.—I am, Sir, ic., A SUBSCRIBER.
"And is not the peace news good ! And has not 'my hero,' Lord Kitchener, covered himself With glory ? It seems to me he has shown greater qualities than were even suspected in him. He has proven himself a statesman and a diplomat, as well as a great generaL I think him one of the most remarkable men in history. As Steevens says, 'the man who has sifted experience and cor- rected error; who has worked at small things and waited for gres.t ; marble to sit still and fire to smite ; steadfast, cold, and inflexible ; the man who has cut out his human heart and made himself a machine to retake Kharteum.' And believing in an overruling Providence who directs all things, I feel sure it is because he has subdued the passions and the heart within him that he has fitted himself to be led by the higher Will. He has been, not only in the Soudan, but in the Transvaal, 'the Alahdi, the expected.' "
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