This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...apparently from behind the scenes, on American or European politics to my lord. On Ward's first appearance a few highly authoritative and well-born Whigs kept Mr. Gladstone company in his habit of classical quotation. Ward greatly delighted such hosts as these by an adroit knack of garnishing his talk with Horatian ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...apparently from behind the scenes, on American or European politics to my lord. On Ward's first appearance a few highly authoritative and well-born Whigs kept Mr. Gladstone company in his habit of classical quotation. Ward greatly delighted such hosts as these by an adroit knack of garnishing his talk with Horatian extracts. The visitor, indeed, had little difficulty in becoming domesticated as the tame cat of any modish or wealthy household (he cared for no other) which he entered. It was a pleasant sight, that of the sleek and trim little gentleman sitting in the midst of a little drawing-room circle in Mayfair, serving up in his attractive manner the small-talk of two polite hemispheres; his benevolent countenance beamed with disinterested delight; his sleek figure so brimmed over with satisfaction that one almost expected to hear him purr. In Ward's train followed other transatlantic influences, incarnated in different shapes. Some of these were first generally seen in a house which has filled a large part in the evolutionary process of society as it exists to-day. The most typically cosmopolitan of Ward's satellites was an American journalist of the showiest and most resourceful sort, W. H. Hurlbert. As editor and part proprietor of the New York World he had established as the paper's correspondent in London L. J. Jennings, a newspaper man of repute on both sides of the Atlantic. In America Mr. Jennings, as conductor of the New York Times, had shown equal courage and skill in attacking the Tammany ring. He had been one of Delane's leader-writers for the Times; he had represented that organ in India. When Ward became domesticated in England he found Jennings re-established on the English Press and a little later an ultra-Tory member of the House of Comm...
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