THE MISTRUST OF THE MEFAAOTIPErIHE. [To THE EDITOR OP THE
"SPECTATOR:1 SIE.—I have read with pleasure your instructive review of Sir Spenser St. John's "Life of Rajah Brooke," in the Spectator of February 17th. Will you not, in your turn, apply some of your own words to a more modern case in which the life of a great public servant has been "marred by harassing suspicion and (to some extent) unworthy reproach ? " The difference between Rajah Brooke and Cecil Rhodes is patent to all. But the application of a parochial standard of moral action to a man of Imperial breadth of view is fatal to any serene and certain judgment of him. You seem—forgive the criticism from a thirty-years' friend—to have Rhodes on the brain as much as your con- temporary, the Westminster Gazette, has Chamberlain, or as the much-quoted Mr. Dick had Charles I.'s head.—I am, Sir, &c.,
A THIRTY-YEARS' READER.
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