Mr. Raymond Asquith was likely to have. proved successful at
the, Bar, for he inherited not only his father's power of speech, but his quickness in taking legal points. The.last thing he would have liked would be sermonizing or sentimentalising or strewing the .flowers of rhetoric over his grave. He would have preferred that the thoughts of those who mourned him should go to those he loved, and not least to his father, for it has been rightly said that he and his father were in the truest and best sense " great friends." The sympathy of the nation for the Prime Minister has been very deep. The public realizes the enormous burden that is oast upon him by the war, and they know how greatly for a man of sensitive and affectionate nature the burden must be increased by a private sorrow. Certainly the Prime Minister's family have not shirked their duties. His four grown-up sons all took up arms in their country's cause. One has made the supreme sacrifice, one has been badly wounded, and one was invalided home from shock or other war injury.
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