At a. Court of the Governors of the Royal Scottish
Corpora- tion on Wednesday Lord Rosebery paid an eloquent tribute to King Edward's memory. The King had had a difficult task in succeeding his mother upon the throne. At his accession the Empire was at war, but before his coronation it was at peace.. This had given "the colour and the note and the nspiration to his reign." Lord Rosebery said it was wrong to suppose that King Edward had worked as a diplomatist in a way that was not proper for a Constitutional ruler. " What I believe he had hoped to do was this : by his own winning tact, by his exquisite kindliness of nature, by the transparent goodness of his character, to unite all people in bonds of friendship, so far as may be, and so to bring about the peace which he had nearest his heart. He won the hearts of the people throughout the world."
