16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 2

Mr. Lloyd George has also done well to retain Lord

Robert Cecil as Blockade Minister, and Lord Derby will be excellent at the War Office. Mr. Rowland Prothero, the new President of the Board of Agriculture, has a profound knowledge of agriculture, and is moreover a good Parliamentarian and a very cult ivated man. Sir A. Stanley at the Board of Trade and Sir J. Iffaclay as Shipping Controller seem to be admirable ""business" appointments. Finally, we must say a special -word in praise of the appointment of that well-known historian, Mr. IL A. L Fisher, as President of the Board of Education.