LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.]
THE LATE LORD CROMER.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Obviously the right to vindicate my father's character rests primarily with me. But surely it is not justly assailable by ignorant or ill-intentioned criticism. My father's public services and record speak for themselves. Your correspondents have chivalrously spoken as well. To them, as also to Mr. Edmund Gosse and Lord Esher, I desire to express my sincere gratitude. To the weight of their influential testimony is added that of your reviewer, who, with a few masterly strokes, has corrected a wrong per- spective. He has also exhorted the writer of Eminent Victorians to cultivate " detachment fro& personal and party prejudices and a sense of responsibility for the truth in his historical portraits." He has thereby rendered a service which will be hailed by the many who refuse to accept as a qualified biographer one who avowedly does not proceed by " the direct method of scrupulou. narration." (The italics are mine.) After the expression of there thanks, there is no need for my further encroachment on the
hospitality of your columns.—I am, Sir, itc., Cacanat. 36 Wimpole Street, W. 1.
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