30 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 3

We publish in our issue of to-day a criticism of

Disraeli, as re- vealed in Mr. Monypenny's volumes, by Lord Cromer which, we feel sure our readers will agree, is one of the ablest, sanest, and most illuminating appreciations of the great Jewish statesman that have yet appeared. In the second instalment of Lord Cromer's biographical study, which we shall publish next week, he deals with Disraeli's relations with Peel. We must not, however, forestall this except to say that it touches on a matter of extreme importance in public life, the right of a statesman not merely to suppress the truth, but to violate it, in the interests not of his country or even of his party, but of his personal ambition.