The whole will is characteristic of the man. It assumes
an importance and dignity that cannot rightly be denied. As in his life's work he considered no duty well done, no responsibility fulfilled, unless he devoted his own attention to the smallest detail, so the provisions for carrying out his benefactions are set down minutely in his will, apparently, as with his official work, mainly in his own handwriting. We deprecate all curiosity about a further testament which he seems to have left and desired to remain private for the present. No doubt it is intended to be of use to a biographer, and contains his views on such well-known subjects, as his controversy over the Military Member of Council in India, wherein we have always, thought that history will judge him to have been right, and his difficulties over our European foreign policy after the Armistice when he was responsible for the Foreign Office and so often found his authority passing to the Prime Minister and the Secretariat at 10 Downing Street.
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