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...Ramsay MacDonald, the Man of Tomorrow" is an interesting account of a man who has suddenly and dramatically been brought before the public eye. It is not a work of enduring value and probably was not intended as such. The author, who, under the name of Iconoclast, accepts at least the one idol of anonymous authorship of political sketches, is very diffuse and insists on presenting his own conceptions when the reader would prefer to be given the facts and allowed to draw his own conclusions...
...been so prolific since the war. Nevertheless the book is unquestionably well worth reading because of its subject. Even the haste of a writer who is apparently more at home in the fields of popular philosophy, psychology and fiction than in the rougher path of biography, can not prevent MacDonald from emerging as the most interesting man in English political life...
...MacDonald, the critics agree, is the handsomest man in the House of Commons. Endowed with a striking presence he is also gifted with a voice which carries without strain and which, although predominantly intellectual, can touch the heights and depths of emotional appeal. It is characteristic of the man that it is seldom so used. For MacDonald has nothing of the demagogue about him perhaps too little of the political orator...
...MacDonald's Present Position...
...leader of the Labor Party MacDonald is placed in a peculiar position. His character, as the author points out in some of his best passages, is after all essentially conservative. He is fond of forms and precedents and traditions; in one of his latest public utterances--almost Gladstonian in tone--he has praised the Scotch Sabbath as compared with the Continental Sunday. It is no wonder that his wilder supporters from Glasgow--the irrepressible Jack Jones and others--should often chafe under the rein and that even his closest friends should bewail the fact that he so seldom chooses...