Excerpt from Clemenceau, the Man and His Time I read therefore with some amusement in Mrs. Humphry Ward's recent book of Victorian Ketol lections that, having met Clemenceau at dinner, in the eighties, she came the conclusion that he was too light a weight to ride such a horse as the French democ racy. A very natural mistake, no doubt, for one of us staid and solemn Victorians to make, according to the young cynics and jesters of today who gird at us! It is precisely this inexhaustible fund of animal spirits and his never-failing cheerfulness and brilliancy which have given Clemenceau the power over France which he pos sesses to-day. Frenchmen have felt the more assured confidence in themselves and their future when they saw. Day after day, their own representative and ruler full of go and of belief in himself at the time when the issue for them all was hanging in the balance. No real leader of men can ever aliord to be a pessimist. He must assume a certitude if he have it not. There was no need for Clemenceau to assume anything. It was all there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.