- EGERTON, Hugh E. Lord Macaulay and Madame D'Ar- The Writings of Gustav Freytag On the Killing of the Chimaera Practical Tory Administration . The Eruptive Force of Modern Fana- Keats' Place in English Poetry . The Truth about Allotments . Rise and Progress of the Poor-Law System in relation to the Church Our First Amphictyonic Council. Decay of British Agriculture . . . A Reply to Lord Randolph Churchill The Centenary of Australia . . . An Easy Solution of the Irish Land How to Revive British Industries Latest Phase of French Socialism . Tory Foreign Policy Sixty Years Personal Experiences of Bulgaria . Fothergill, J. M., M.D. HARRIs, William J. HEATON, J. Henniker, M.P.. Huxley, Leonard . KAUFMANN, Rev. M. KEBBEL, T. E. . • LAYARD, Florence . LEGH, T. W., M.P. LYMINGToN, Wiscount, M.P.. MAGNUs, Lady . MALLock, W. H. . . MANNERs, Lady John. MAvor, James . MoRGAN, E. Strachan 70 318 166 685 799. 251 Author. PAGE Food . . . . . . . . . . 529 NoFRIs, Edward S., M.P. . Fresh Work for Parliament . . . 415 Some Abuses in Public Speaking . 656 NoFTHcote, Sir H. Stafford, Bart., M.P. . The Marquess of Wellesley and the ONSLow, Earl of . . . . Dogs in Disgrace . . . . . . . 335 PALGRAVE, Prof. F. T. . . Poetry and the other Fine Arts . . 202 PATTERson, Richard . . . Mercantile Ireland and Home Rule. 617 PEAcock, Thomas Love . . The Last Days of Windsor Forest . 106 PENZANCE, Lord . . . . Protection of National Industry . . 173 PHILLIMORE, Catherine M. . Donatello's Work at Florence . . 59 PostGATE, J. P. . . . . Shall Women Graduate at Cam- bridge 2 . . . . . . . . . 191 PRYDE, Thomas . . . . Heine's Visit to London . . . . 542 READE, Amos . . . . . A Visit to a Kerry Nationalist . . 790 SHAND, Alexander Innes . The Centenary of the Times . . . 841 ShoBE, Lieut. H. N., R.N. . Recent Literature in China . . . 112 SMITH, Prof. Goldwin. . . Conservatism and Female Suffrage. 785 SYLVESTER, Paul . . . . A Magyar Musician . . . . . . 662 TRAILL, Anthony, LL.D. . Irish Landowners' Convention . . 757 TRAILL, H. D. . . . . . Evolution of Humour . . . . . 811 TREGARTHEN, Hugh P. . . Pauperism, Distress, and the Coming WERNEY, Lady . . . . . Peasant Proprietors in France, 1787 WATson, William . . . . Wordsworth's Grave 40 WHITMORE, C. A., M.P. . Has the Session been Unfruitful? 153 Wodehouse, E. R., M.P. . Mr. Gladstone's Concessions . . . 1 Correspondence . . . . . . . . . 139, 289, 429, 582, 722, 871 Lord Salisbury's Foreign Policy. By “Q.” . . . . . . . . 591 Politics at Home and Abroad . . . . . 133, 281, 422, 575, 716, 866 T H E NATIONAL REVIEW. No. 55–SEPTEMBER, 1887. MR. GLADSTONE'S CONCESSIONS. THERE can be no doubt that Mr. Gladstone's so-called concessions have operated to the advantage of his party in recent bye-elections; and candidates fighting under his standard have made especial use of what he is supposed to have conceded with regard to the retention of Irish members at Westminster. Sir George Trevelyan presents the most striking illustration of the effect produced by these concessions. So completely have they captivated him, that he has lost all patience with other Liberal Unionists who refuse to join him in his renewal of allegiance to Mr. Gladstone, and heaps reproaches on his former associates. They must (he says) be Tory Unionists, and only poor Tory Unionists into the bargain; traitors to the sacred cause of Liberalism, and contumacious rebels against the divine right of the Liberal party to rule the country. Moreover, they are wilfully ignoring or misrepresenting Mr. Gladstone's explicit declarations. That a statesman “with such a past” as the late Prime Minister should have been rebuffed when holding out the hand of friendship to effect a reunion of the Liberal party, fills Sir George with humiliation and indignation. And he is amazed that any Liberal Unionist leader should hesitate to enter into conference with a politician so simple and straightforward, so plain-spoken and invariably lucid in his meaning as Mr. Gladstone. A few reflections, therefore, on the real extent and value of these concessions, which have entranced Sir George, may be offered by a Liberal Unionist, to whom even the disruption of the Liberal Party appears to be a light calamity, when weighed in the balance with the disruption of the United Kingdom. There were four main points in Mr. Gladstone's Irish policy of last year, about which division arose in the Liberal ranks. They were (i.) the employment of British credit for buying out Irish landlords, and the consequent liabilities imposed on British taxWOI. X. 1 |