A worse appointment still is that of Sir Seymour Fitzgerald
to be Chief Charity Commissioner. The Charity Commission, besides its high intrinsic importance, now includes the Endowed Schools' Commission, and ought to be presided over by a man of the highest stamp and of very special experience. Sir Seymour Fitzgerald is a clever man, with a considerable knowledge of foreign affairs, and probably the sort of astuteness which would have made him an apt diplomatist, but as head of the Charity Commission and as a reformer of Endowed-School Trusts he will be a fish out of water ; and even when in the water,—in the stormy waves of politics,—Sir Seymour Fitzgerald has not been a man to inspire unlimited confidence. He will fall even shorter of filling the place of Sir James Hill than Lord Hampton will fall of filling the place of Sir Edward Ryan.
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