News of the Week
THE- death of LordOxford and Asquith will be mourned by the nation regardless of politics, for he was one who kept up our standards of public life, always refusing, even under great provocation, to descend to anything mean or to personalities even- in his own defence. Besides this fine character he had a: great intellect, refined by his scholarship which he kept alive to the end. He was a real orator' of whom the preient. Prime Minister once said, that he was " A Roman in his lucidity, in his phrasing and in his felicity." We have dealt elsewhere to-day with his politic.l.career, which must take a per- manent place in history, if only because upon- him fell the -heaviest responsibility for leading the Empire into the greatest of wars: Here We. will only express our at the nrition÷p loss and our deep sympathy With' his very deVOted.
