MANY years ago Mr. Gardiner established
himself as an unrivalled analyst of the characters of public men with his ' Prophets, Priests and Kings.' Since then he has become equally well known as a writer on many subjects under his own name and under his pseudonym, ' 'Alpha of the Plough.' In this series of talks he will return to his earliest métier and give character-studies of some of the people most prominently and permanently in the public eye.