Crossword-Solution: ROSEBERY 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

JAPP." {Manuscript letter by R.L.S.: p262.jpg} In reply to this Lord Rosebery sent me only the most formal acknowledgment, not in the least encouraging me in any way to further aid him in the matter with regard to suggestions of any kind; so that I was helpless to press on his lordship the need for some corrections on other points which I would most willingly have tendered to him had he shown himself inclined or ready to receive them.

Stevenson rewarded me for a literary service no whit greater or more essentially valuable to him than this service rendered to Lord Rosebery might have been to him.

This chapter would most probably not have been printed, had not Mr Coates re-issued the inadequate and most misleading paragraph about Mr Stevenson and style in his Lord Rosebery's _Life and Speeches_ exactly as it was before, thus perpetuating at once the error and the wrong, in spite of all my trouble, warnings, and protests.

They think they are safe with such superlatives applied to a brilliant and clever peer (with large estates and many interests), and an ex-Prime Minister! But literature is a republic, and it must here be said, though all unwillingly, that Lord Rosebery is but an amateur--a superficial though a clever amateur after all, and their extravagances do not change the fact.

But fifteen years ago I knew this square as well as Lord Rosebery does, and a confounded long sight better than that man who is going up the steps of old Beaumont's house.” “Who is old Beaumont?” I asked irritably.