WITH AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY

SIR ROBERT REID, K.C. M.P.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT, & CO., LTD.

1905.

MULNEN LIDMANN "

Ch 292,11

PARVAR

COLLEGE

12/4/1914

By the same Author.

WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL.

BY

A. MACCALLUM SCOTT.

WITH PORTRAITS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

Crown Sro, 38. Gd.

An appreciative record of an adventurous caroer and of a new and
powerful force in politics. The scope and intention of the
book are best indicated by the Table of Contents: Youth and
Genius-Subaltern of Hussars-"The Bright Ecs of
Danger "-The South Africau War-The Member for
Oldham-"The Tattered Flag"-Army Reform-The Fair
Trade Issue-The Parting of the Ways - Rallying the
Opposition-A Futuro Leader.

METHUEN & CO.,

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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

This little volume deals with a subject to which the mass of British electors have probably given less attention than it deserves. We have a multitude of anxieties at home. Life is hardly long enough to master the complicated problems of domestic reform. No wonder that so many turn away from a study of the tedious Blue Books which show how our representatives ten or twelve thousand miles away have mis-managed our interests and those of the dependency they are appointed to govern.

Yet it is imperative that public opinion in this country should be directed to subjects of this kind. Nearly all the wars in which we have been engaged during the last ninety years have arisen from the supposed necessities, not of the United Kingdom itself, but of the British dominions or dependencies beyond the seas. They often begin in comparatively trifling disputes. Hasty or ambitious Proconsuls are