In one respect at any rate the Life of Lord
Oxford, to be published in a week or two now, will shed new light on a character exposed so long and so conspicuously to the public gaze that it might be imagined that nothing of consequence could remain undisclosed. But Asquith, far more than most men, had "two soul-sides,
One to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loved her," and the letters written by the future Prime Minister to Miss Tennant will, I am told by those who have read them, rank among the great love-letters of all literature. At any rate, very competent judges put them high above the 13rownings'. Many will appear in the new biography, but a few, I believe, were held by those with whom the decision lies to be too intimate for publication. The whole of that Asquith is new to the multitude. * * * *
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