The world knew and respected Lord Cromer most as a
man of great justice of view and of moderation, coupled with firmness and energy, a man above all things sane and safe in thought and conduct. And they Were right. At the same time, Lord Cromer had one of the moat eager, active, impressionable minds that it has been the fortune of the present writer to come across. There was no game in the intellectual field which you could put up without his mind being willing and able to fly at it. He would discuss the proper translation of some exquisite lyric of the Greek Anthology, or French epigram,. or a " luciferous " saying by Bacon or Dryden, and turn frOm them with equal interest and energy to debate a point in economics,: or Indian administration, or military policy. His was essentially a free mind, and, in spite of the tremendous wear and tear to which it was exposed, it never suffered the slightest atrophy, or even hardening of fibre.
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