We are perfectly sure that Mr. Bonar Law will care
nothing for this unworthy detraction, but we can assure the Saturday Review that there are plenty of men who belong to the bodies they have named who have read the paragraph with some- thing like physical nausea. We have always thought that the greatest claim of the country gentleman and the man of good family, with a public school or a university or Army and Navy training, was good manners, and that he would do anything rather than throw the want of these things in another man's face. The Saturday Review aggravates its offence by the monstrous suggestion that the Liberals cheered Mr. Bonar Law because he was an unworthy leader, when, of course, they only cheered him to show good sportsmanship. As a matter of fact the Liberals well know Mr. Bonar Law to be a formidable leader. One of their chiefs indeed is said to have remarked, "The fools have blundered upon the most formidable leader they could possibly have chosen."
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