Fortune is very constant to Lord Rosebery on the race-
course. After winning two Derbys, he has this week won the St. Leger with Sir Visto,' his opponents being all rather second-rate horses. One wonders if success of that kind is any consolation for his failure as Premier, or whether it only deepens the winner's sense that destiny is against him. That will depend, we imagine, on what we shall never know,—Lord Rosebery's own estimate of his own quali- fications to rule England. If he thinks himself fully qualified for the Premiership he must think that Fortune has served him most unkindly. It gave him the first place, with dis- advantages which made it worthless. He succeeded a man so great that his retirement disheartened his party ; he was com- pelled to accept a programme in which he did not believe ; and he had for adlatus a man who did not believe in him.
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