We have said in another part of our issue something
of what we feel and of what the country feels in regard to Lord Cromer's services, but, to tell the truth, we have hardly the heart for eulogy at the moment when the nation parts with one who has always been a true friend as well as a true servant of the State. Eulogy, too, however well deserved, seems inconsistent with Lord Cromer's work. That work is beyond praise, just as it was never designed to win praise. And yet in saying this one is in danger of losing touch with the essentials of Lord Cromer's character, and of representing it as something stern and aloof from common humanity. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth, for his personality is intensely human. Lord Cromer, as all his friends know, is a man of warm heart and eager, strenuous nature, and his wisdom, depth, and soundness of judgment have never, as they sometimes do, chilled his feelings or repressed that "noble rage" which, after all, is one of the surest tests of a true manhood.
