5 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 14

MR. LLOYD GEORGE AT CREDITON.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—Dives was criticised who fared sumptuously every day. Mr. Lloyd George criticises the idle rich, the constant pleasure-seekers of whom a Judge said lately that their most profitable occupation was to manicure one another's finger- nails. If Dives had attained affluence by honest hard work, and had then devoted his time to the public service, I do not think he would have been blamed, even though he had occasionally indulged in a good dinner, or had now and then for recreation driven down to a week-end game of golf in a motor-car. May not the Chancellor of the Exchequer do as

much without cavil P—I am, Sir, &c., W. R. M.