22 JUNE 1907, Page 15

THE PENALTY OF GOOD WORK.

[To Tee EinToR or vas 'bnrvxoa.•'7 Sin,—In the Spectator of the 15th Wit. you point out that the Nationalists forced the Government to get rid of Sir Horace Plunkett because he was doing too much good in Ireland. A is not, I think, uninteresting to note that one of the leading sedition-mongers in India wishes to get rid of the English Government for the same reason. Such compliments are highly to be valued, because we may be sure that they are absolutely well deserved.—I am, Sir, dic.,

[Our correspondent might have added a third example. The Egyptian Nationalists made no secret of the fact that they wanted to get rid of Lord Cromer because he was doing too much good to Egypt.—En. Spectator.]