3 FEBRUARY 1917, Page 2

It is with very deep regret that we record the

death of Lord Cromer, which took place in London on Monday at the age of seventy- five. Readers of the Spectator, like its editor and his colleagues, will feel a personal grief at Lord Cromer's deeth, so close was -Isis connexion with the paper. Up till his last illness, and for some Eve years before, hardly a week passed without one of his admirable reviews being included in our pages. The present writer can say without hesitation, and he feels certain that his words will be endorsed as readily by the rest of his reviewing staff as by the general public, that it would be impossible to find a more com- petent reviewer than was Lord Cromer for books dealing with home politics, foreign affairs, history, or general literature.