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255 The common-sense view of the employment of such a man seems to be
set out in the speech of Sir Henry James (Cassell and Co.), pp.
149-51, and 494-5.

M145 The Letters Reached

256 Feb. 24, 1889. _Evidence_, vi. p. 20.

M146 The Forgeries Exploded M147 On The Report

257 See above, vol. iii. p. 56.

M148 On The Report

258 “The Triple Alliance and Italy’s Place in It.” By Outidanos.
_Contemporary Review_, October 1889. See Appendix.

M149 Blessings Of The Home

259 See above, vol. i. pp. 99, 568.

260 Third Part, vol. i. p. 62.

261 Vol. i. p. 206.

262 These articles appeared in _Good Words_ (March-November 1900), and
were subsequently published in volume form under the title of _The
Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture_.

_ 263 Speaker_, Aug. 30, 1890.

_ 264 Inf._ v. 98: “Where Po descends for rest with his tributary
streams.”

_ 265 Od._ xx. 82.

266 Mr. Hanbury, August 1, 1889. _Hans._ 339, p. 98.

267 At Birmingham, July 30, 1889.

_ 268 E.g._ _Northern Whig_, February 21, 1889.

M150 Advance Of Home Rule

269 Mr. Balfour at Manchester. _Times_, October 21, 1889.

270 October 22, 1890.

271 See Mr. Roby’s speech at the Manchester Reform Club, Oct. 24, and
articles in _Manchester Guardian_, Oct. 16 and 25, 1890. The _Times_
(Oct. 23), while denying the inference that the Irish question was
the question most prominent in the minds of large numbers of the
electors, admitted that this was the vital question really before
the constituency, and says generally, “The election, like so many
other bye-elections, has been decided by the return to their party
allegiance of numbers of Gladstonians who in 1886 absented
themselves from the polling booths.”

M151 The Catastrophe

272 “That the effect of this trial will be to relegate Mr. Parnell for a
time, at any rate, to private life, must we think be assumed....
Special exemptions from penalties which should apply to all public
men alike cannot possibly be made in favour of exceptionally
valuable politicians to suit the convenience of their parties. He
must cease, for the present at any rate, to lead the nationalist
party; and conscious as we are of the loss our opponents will
sustain by his resignation, we trust that they will believe us when
we say that we are in no mood to exult in it.... It is no
satisfaction to us to feel that a political adversary whose
abilities and prowess it was impossible not to respect, has been
overthrown by irrelevant accident, wholly unconnected with the
struggle in which we are engaged.”—_Daily Telegraph_, Nov. 17, 1890.

M152 Opinion In Ireland

273 Speech at Retford, Dec. 11, 1890. _Antony and Cleopatra_, Act I. Sc.
2.

M153 Judgments In Great Britain

274 Lord Granville, Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Arnold Morley, and myself.

M154 The Liberal Leaders M155 The Irish Leader Obdurate

275 If anybody cares to follow all this up, he may read a speech of Mr.
Parnell’s at Kells, Aug. 16, 1891, and a full reply of mine sent to
the press, Aug. 17.

M156 Mr. Parnell’s Decision

276 On the day after leaving Hawarden Mr. Parnell spoke at Liverpool,
calling on Lancashire to rally to their “grand old leader.” “My
countrymen rejoice,” he said, “for we are on the safe path to our
legitimate freedom and our future prosperity.” December 19, 1889.

277 See _The Parnell Split_, reprinted from the _Times_ in 1891.
Especially also _The Story of Room 15_, by Donal Sullivan, M.P., the
accuracy of which seems not to have been challenged.

M157 Committee Room Fifteen M158 The Irish Bishops M159 Break-Up Of The Irish Party

278 The case for the change of mind which induced the majority who had
elected Mr. Parnell to the chair less than a fortnight before, now
to depose him, was clearly put by Mr. Sexton at a later date. To the
considerations adduced by him nobody has ever made a serious
political answer. The reader will find Mr. Sexton’s argument in the
reports of these proceedings already referred to.

_ 279 Od._ xi. 200. “It was not sickness that came upon me; it was
wearying for thee and thy lost counsels, glorious Odysseus, and for
all thy gentle kindness, this it was that broke the heart within
me.”

280 Hor. _Carm._ i. 24.

M160 Severe Ordeal

281 December 23, 1890.

282 April 3, 1891.

283 July 8, 1891.

M161 Death Of Mr. Parnell

284 October 6. He was in his forty-sixth year (_b._ June 1846), and had
been sixteen years in parliament.

285 Vol. i. p. 387.

286 See above, vol. ii. p. 76.

M162 At Newcastle

287 Once Mr. Gladstone presented him with a piece of plate, and set upon
it one of those little Latin inscriptions to which he was so much
addicted, and which must serve here instead of further commemoration
of a remarkable friendship: Georgio Armitstead, Armigero, D.D. Gul.
E. Gladstone. Amicitiæ Benevolentiæ Beneficiorum delatorum Valde
memor Mense Augusti A.D., 1894.

288 Era già l’ora, che volge ’l disio
A’ naviganti, e ’ntenerisce ’l cuore
Lo di ch’ han detto a’ dolci amici addio, etc.

_Purg._ viii.

Byron’s rendering is well enough known.

M163 Opinions On Statesmen M164 Table-Talk

289 On some other occasion he set this against Macaulay’s praise of a
passage in Barrow mentioned above, ii. p. 536.

M165 Table-Talk

_ 290 Iliad_, ix. 32.

M166 Ecclesiastical M167 Fuentarabia

291 ναυτίλε, μὴ πεύθου τίνος ἐνθάδε τύμβος ὅδ᾽ εἰμί,
ἀλλ αὐτὸς πόντου τύγχανε χρηστοτέρου.

“Ask not, mariner, whose tomb I am here, but be thine own fortune a
kinder sea.”—MACKAIL.

M168 Disenchantment A Mistake M169 Table-Talk

292 I have not succeeded in hitting on the passage in the _History_.

M170 Payment Of Members M171 At Bayonne

293 Boswell, March 21, 1776. Repeated, with a very remarkable
qualification, Sept. 19, 1777. Birkbeck Hill’s edition, iii. p. 162.

_ 294 Carm._ iii. 5.

M172 Table-Talk M173 Table-Talk

_ 295 Translations by Lyttelton and Gladstone_, p. 166.

M174 Table-Talk

296 Thou shalt possess thy soul without care among the living, and
lighter when thou goest to the place where most are.

M175 Conversations

297 See Appendix, Hor. _Carm._ i. 12, 25.

M176 Question Of Undertaking Government

298 Lord Palmerston’s government of 1859 was shorter by only a few days.

M177 The Cabinet

299 Here is the Fourth Cabinet:—

_First lord of the treasury and privy seal_, W. E. Gladstone.
_Lord chancellor_, Lord Herschell.
_President of the council and Indian secretary_, Earl of Kimberley.
_Chancellor of the exchequer_, Sir W. V. Harcourt.
_Home secretary_, H. H. Asquith.
_Foreign secretary_, Earl of Rosebery.
_Colonial secretary_, Marquis of Ripon.
_Secretary for war_, H. Campbell-Bannerman.
_First lord of the admiralty_, Earl Spencer.
_Chief secretary for Ireland_, John Morley.
_Secretary for Scotland_, Sir G. O. Trevelyan.
_President of the board of trade_, A. J. Mundella.
_President of the local government board_, H. H. Fowler.
_Chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster_, James Bryce.
_Postmaster-general_, Arnold Morley.
_First commissioner of works_, J. G. Shaw Lefevre.
_Vice-president of the council_, A. H. D. Acland.

300 See Mr. Gladstone’s speeches and answers to questions in the House
of Commons, Jan. 1, Feb. 3, and May 1, 1893. See also the French
Yellow Book for 1893, for M. Waddington’s despatches of Nov. 1,
1892, May 5, 1893, and Feb. 1, 1893.

M178 Preparation Of The Bill

301 I hope I am not betraying a cabinet secret if I mention that this
committee was composed of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Spencer, Lord
Herschell, Mr. Campbell-Bannermann, Mr. Bryce, and myself.

302 See above, p. 386.

M179 Achievements In Debate

303 One poor biographic item perhaps the tolerant reader will not grudge
me leave to copy from Mr. Gladstone’s diary:—“_October 6, 1892._ Saw
J. Morley and made him envoy to ——. He is on the whole ... about the
best stay I have.”

M180 Obstruction M181 The Guillotine M182 Question Of Dissolution

304 See above, ii. p. 241.

305 See Appendix for further elucidation.

M183 Again At Biarritz M184 Last Cabinet

306 Above, p. 130.

M185 Last Audience

307 Written down, March 5.

308 Dr. Carlyle’s translation.

_ 309 Inferno_, xxvii. 81.

310 On July 1, 1895, he announced his formal withdrawal in a letter to
Sir John Cowan, so long the loyal chairman of his electoral
committee.

311 “The Place of Heresy and Schism in the Modern Christian Church” and
“The True and False Conception of the Atonement.”

_ 312 Letter to the Duke of Westminster._

M186 Last Meeting With The Queen

313 For the list see Appendix.

_ 314 King John._

M187 Last Illness M188 Parliamentary Tributes M189 His Summary Of The Period

315 Letter to Sir John Cowan, March 17, 1894.

316 July 1, 1895.

M190 Leader, Not Follower

317 See vol. i. p. 457.

M191 Achievements Compared

318 See _Guardian_, Feb. 25, 1874.

M192 Attitude To Church Parties

319 iii. p. 396.

320 For instance, Geddes, _Problem of the Homeric Poems_, 1878, p. 16.

M193 On Homer

321 Pattison, ii. p. 166.

_ 322 Gleanings_, ii. p. 147.

_ 323 Life_, i. p. 398.

M194 Leopardi Translations

_ 324 Gleanings_, ii. p. 129.

M195 A Golden Lamp

325 Telegram of April 4.

326 Despatch, March 9.

327 Power, p. 73 A.

_ 328 Ibid._ 75 B.

329 Egypt, No. 18, p. 34, 1884 (April); Egypt, No. 35, p. 122 (July 30).

M196 Home Rule Bill, 1886 M197 Naval Estimates Of 1894