De Lesseps

The prevailing Europea estímate of De Lesseps, whose death is widely diacussed by the press, is probably accurately summarized by the concluding sentences in the London Times: "Public opinión, which has alter - nately regarded him as an impostor or as a brilliaut eng.ueer, as a consninmate financier or as a heartless swiudler, will probably finally settle dowu to this appreciation of the originator of the Suez canal. He was neither a financier nor an engineer, neither an impostor nor a swindler. He was a inau of great originality, of indotnitable per aeverance, of boundless faith in himself and of singular powers of fascination over others. "