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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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im had taken their degree. Heentered in 1872, and did not finally graduateuntil 188L He was fascinated by the charm of Oxford.Never a bookworm, precluded by his health fromsuccess as an athlete, he was nevertheless ex-tremely susceptible to the glamour which Oxfordexercises over the more romantic of her students.For Rhodes, to the last day of his life, was a poet,none the less a poet because he never dabbled inrhymes, but confined his energies to the poetryof deeds. Year after year he returned to Oriel, nor wasit until nine years after he had first entered hisname at the university that he quitted with regretthe city to which, down to his dying hour, his eyeever turned with affectionate gratitude. AVhether it was at Oxford, or whether it waswhen brooding under the stars at night after hisdiamond - searching was done, Cecil Rhodesdreamed the dieam which was henceforth todominate his life. He was still an undergradu-ate, of Oriel when he drew up his first will, in CECIL JOHN RHODES. 549
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CECIL JOHN RHODES. (From a photograph taken a short time before his final illness.) which he embodied, in crude, youthful phrases,the central thought which inspires his last willand testament. Many years ago he gave me asealed packet,—not to be opened until after hisdeath, in order, he said, that you may see I havealways been at work upon these ideas. When Iopened the packet, 1 found that as far back as1S77, when his fortune was only beginning, hehad bequeathed all he had to the furtlierance ofthe same great conception of the unity of theEnglish-speaking world, and tlie extension andthe expansion of the influence of that race over the whole world. Seldom, indeed, does a greatgenius realize in its central insi)iration so soonand cling to it so tenaciously to the last. Stillless frequently does any mortal who dreams sofair a vision in his youth achieve so great a suc-cess as to be able in less than half a century tobequeath a fortune of thirty million dollars forthe realization of his

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