narrower in outlook, but it was sure of itself, and condescended to an intellectual defence. But the half-truths of the new Liberalism have to rely upon the demagogic powers of Mr Lloyd-George and Mr Churchhill; and in place of the solid backing of the older creed it can look only to the journalism of men like Mr Chesterton and Mr Masterman, the laughing and the weeping philosophers of this odd faith.

But, we are told, it is Democracy that is speaking, triumphant Democracy, which cares nothing for narrow reason. "Non in dialectica," runs the argument in the words of the medieval saint-"non in dialectica placuit Deo salvum facere populum suum." Well, at its best, this is only a new type of sycophancy. To have the vices of a courtier one need not toady a monarch. In the old days the sycophant clung to the skirts of a king or a cardinal, because he saw in him the embodiment of power. Nowadays it is the masses who are all - potent, and it is the demagogue who is the spiritual successor of Carr and Buckingham. Whatever the masses desire they must have, though it is in defiance of reason and justice, -to such a pass has fortune brought those who claim to wear the mantle of Vane and Hampden. It is considered right for a Member of Parliament to use language about peers and landlords which far exceeds the ordinary licence of politics. The unfortunate

Duke is saluted on every Liberal platform with the choicest Billingsgate. But let a Duke lose his temper, as occasionally happens, and say something blasphemous about a trade - union or 8 labour leader,-instantly there is a scandalised hush in the Liberal press, and then a torrent of protest against such sacrilege. It is the authentic style of the sycophant. This novel courtiership is not a dignified attitude, and we can well understand that many Liberals hotly repudiate the charge. But the thing is written large on their policy, and is indeed the inevitable consequence of the new "democratic" creed. They cannot escape from it once they reject reason as a standard in statesmanship and discussion.

Reason, indeed, is an ill thing to reject, for it is apt to return like a boomerang and hit the man who cast it away. We are on the eve of a General Election, when the whole armoury of demagogic weapons will be brought into use. It will be easy to deliver rhetorical speeches about freeing the land for the nation and making the popular will prevail: and no doubt they will have their effect at the polls. But we cannot imagine that thinking Liberals will be very easy in their mind when they see a policy which is professedly and, we believe, honestly anti-Socialist, drawing its only logical defence from Socialist principles. We would ask, in all seriousness, how a creed of

shreds and patches can hope to repel the compact and logical dogmas of Socialism? It is not the business of Tories to wish well to their opponents, but no Tory who believes in the party system desires to see the other national party in an unconscious and degrading alliance with the common enemy. No party can endure without principles; and until Liberalism foregoes its unintelligent worship of "democracy,' and adopts a more manly and rational line of thought, it will remain estranged from the serious and thinking element in the nation. We would suggest, in conclusion, two considerations for our opponents. The first is that Democracy," in the class sense in which it is now used, has never been triumphant

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since the world began. The masses, when they have won, have won only because they had reason fighting for them. Labour cannot for long coerce capital if capital be in the right, and the power of numbers is apt to crumble suddenly before organised intelligence. In the second place, we would suggest that our new democrats are not really looking at the masses at all. Their eyes are filled by the electoral machine, and they see the worker through the distorting medium of the election agent. We have had great popular leaders in our history, but they have held their places by respecting their followers and giving them of their best. Is it not possible, we ask, that Liberalism is underrating the intelligence of the people?

ADAMANTINE MIND, THE, 166.
Advertisement, use of, in the eighteenth
century, 713 et seq.-present-day char-
acter of, 717-some living examples of
self-, 719.

'Advertisements of "The Spectator,"
the: Being a Study of the Literature,
History, and Manners of Queen Anne's
England as they are reflected therein,
as well as an illustration of the Origins
of the Art of Advertising,' by Law
rence Lewis, notice of, 713 et seq.
'Advice to a Daughter,' by the Marquis
of Halifax: On Religion, 793-On
Husbands and Households, ib. et seq.
-On Behaviour and Conversation,
797-On the Choice of Friends, 799—
On Vanity and Affectation, 800-On
Diversions, 802.

'Age of Reason, the,' by Tom Paine,
teaching of, 133 et seq.
Aldershot, establishment of, as a train.
ing-camp, 386.
AMRITSAR, 346.

Anderson, Sir Robert, parentage and
early years of, 461-called to the
Irish Bar, 462 et seq.-appointment
of, to the Secret Service Department,
470 et seq.

Takes charge of Irish business at
the Home Office, 606-reminiscences
of work and play at the Home Office
by, 608 et seq.

Becomes head of the detective de-
partment of Scotland Yard, 769-
lodgings secured by, at Charles
Reade's, 773-on the Commission of
the Edinburgh Royal Observatory,
776 et seq. becomes Secretary to the
Prison Commission, 778 et seq.
Arkadi, the Monastery of, in Crete, visit
to, 544 et seq.
ARMY ADMINISTRATION,
PRESENT, 377.

PAST AND

Army drill, some reforms in, 100 et seq.
As OTHERS SEE US, 725.
Asquith, Mr, Budget speech of, in reply
to Lord Rosebery, 584 et seq.
Avory, Captain, career of, as a pirate,
53 et seq.

AWAKENING OF AMBROSE ROYLE, THE,

102.

Aytoun, Professor, collaboration of Sir
Theodore Martin and, 453 et seq.
Baker, Valentine, some reminiscences of,
181 et seq.

Balfour, Mr, speech of, at Birmingham,
on the Budget, 581 et seq.
BALLY, OLD, 826.

Bank of England, imaginary Fenian
attack on the, 471 et seq.
Barrie, Mr, the novels of, as an example
of Cockneyism, 5 et seq.
Bentham, Jeremy, the political phil-
osophy of, 424 et seq.
Betrayal, the Great, 143.
BEY, RIZA, 617.

BIRD LIFE, ROMANCE IN, 199.
Birrell, Mr, Cockney limitations of, in
politics, 9 et seq.

Blériot, M., crossing of the Channel in a
monoplane by, 451 et seq.
Blight-bird or Taukou, the, coming of, to
New Zealand, 199 et seq.-description
of, 203-habits of, 204 et seq.

Bon Gaultier Ballads, the,' origin of,
453.

BREAK IN THE RAINS, a, 473.
British Academy, exclusion of men of
genius by the, 849 et seq.
BROOCH, THE, 781.
Budget, the, revolutionary character of,
151-speech of Mr Balfour on, 581 et
seq. — speech of Lord Rosebery on,
583-speech of Mr Asquith on, 584
et seq.unworkable nature of, 860
-land and mineral taxes of, 861-the
mining royalties of, 862.

Burke, Ricard, attempted rescue of,
from Clerkenwell prison, 468 et seq.
CARLYLE, A FRIEND OF, 137.
Carvel, definition and description of
the, 663.

Censorship of Stage Plays, the report
on the, 852 et seq.
CHAMBERLAIN, FIELD - MARSHAL SIR
NEVILLE, 17.

Chamberlain, Sir Neville, boyhood and
training of, 17-military career of,
in India, begun, 18 et seq.-appoint-
ment of, to Lord Ellenborough's
Bodyguard, 21-civil employment in
the Punjab undertaken by, 23
services of, during the Mutiny, 24 et
seq.-the Ambela force commanded
by, 26-becomes Commander-in-Chief
in Madras, 28-created Field-Mar-
shal, ib.

Chesterton, G. K., the literary style of,
7 et seq.

Chinese labour in South Africa, the
need for, 285-abolition of, by the
Liberal Government, 286.
CICALAS, THE: AN IDYLL, 516.
Clerkenwell gunpowder
account of the, 468 et seq.
COCKNEY, THE, 1.

explosion,

-

- in

Cockneyism, definition of, 2-examples
of, in literature, ib. et seq.
politics, 8 et seq.-in war, 12. -88
regards Empire, 13-as regards social
questions, 14 et seq.

COMMONS, THE HOUSE OF, FROM THE
INSIDE AS I KNEW IT, 491.
'Condition of England, the,' by C. F.
G. Masterman, M.P., notice of, 442
et seq.

Connemara, description of, in the
eighteenth century, 330 et seq.
CRETE, A RIDE THROUGH, 541.
Crimean War, the, mercenary troops
engaged in, 377-Army administra-
tion during, 378, 382 et seq.-hard-
ships of the soldiers in, 379 et seq.-
improvements in medical branch
since, 384 et seq.-transport service
in, 386 et seq.-Works Department in,
and since, 388 et seq.-lessons of, 392.
CUCKOO, LOUD SING! 360.
CURATE, THE, 82.

Davitt, Michael, services of, as arms-
agent" to the Fenians, 770-the life-
story of, ib. et seq.

DEMOCRACY IN THE LORDS, 30.
"Democracy," the, present-day nonsense
talked about, 859-Liberal worship
of, 869.

Dempster, Thomas, parentage and early
career of, 755 et seq.-controversies
of, at the University of Toulouse, 758
-appointment of, as Professor of the
Pandects, at Pisa, 761-appropriation
of Irish Saints by, for Scotland, 763

et seq., 766-death of, 765-character-
istics of, as a historian, 767 et seq.
Dhingra, Madan Lal, murder of Sir
William Curzon Wyllie by, 437-
biographical sketch of, ib.-hatred of
English race by, 438.

DOOR, THE GREEN, 215.

D'Orsay, Count, real cause of the death
of, 771.

Dublin, description of, in 1796, 322
et seq., 335.

Edinburgh Royal Observatory Commis-
sion, results of the, 776 et seq.
Edinburgh, the Volunteer movement in,
96 et seq.

Empire, the Cockney attitude towards,
13.
England and the English from an
American Point of View,' by Price
Collier, notice of, 725 et seq.
England, the successive inhabitants of,
725-character of the present-day
dwellers in, 727 et seq.-place of the
King in, 729-analysis of the House
of Lords in, 730-characteristics of the
House of Commons in, 731-falling
behind in commerce by, 732-sport
in, 733 signs of decadence in,
734.

-

Fire Insurance, the origin of, 799.
FLIGHT, THE LOVERS', 434.
FORGOTTEN CHAPTER IN SCOTTISH
HISTORY, A, 424.

FRIEND OF CARLYLE, A, 137.
GALLEON, THE, 663.

Galway, description of, in 1796, 329 et
seq.

Gentlemen pirates, some examples of,
51 et seq.

'George Meredith in Anecdote and
Criticism' by J. A. Hammerton,
notice of, 303 et seq.
Gladstone, Mr, faulty ideas of, as re-
gards Army policy, 391.

Golden Temple of Amritsar, the, de-
scription of, 346 et seq.-worshippers
of, 348 et seq.

GOLF, THE SISTER OF, 508.

Gorloff, General von, some reminiscences
of, 168 et seq., 182.

Gosset, Captain, reminiscences of, at
the House of Commons, 614 et seq.
GREAT BETRAYAL, THE, 143.

Great Mogul ship, seizure of the, by
pirates, 55 et seq.

GREEN DOOR, THE, 215.

GREEN LINKS OF PESHAWUR, THE, 305.
HALIFAX, LORD, TO HIS DAUGHTER, 793.
Halifax, Marquis of, discourse on the

Navy by, written in 1694, 310 et seq.
'Hibernia Curiosa' by Burt (1764), de-
scription of, 317 et seq.

HOUSE OF COMMONS FROM THE INSIDE
AS I KNEW IT, THE, 491.
House of Commons, the, contest for a
seat in, 491 et seq.-etiquette of, 493
et seq.-lapses of memory in members
of, 495-delivery of speeches in, 496
-feeding arrangements of, 497 et seq.
-scenes on the Terrace at, 499-
ventilation of, 501-accommodation of,
502-hints to the members of, 504 et
seq.-provision for resigning member-
ship of, 507-an American estimate
of, 731.

House of Lords, the, an analysis of, 730
-attitude of the Government to-
wards, 862 et seq.
Household Cavalry, the, creation of,
294-duties of, ib. et seq.-character
of, in the time of Charles II., 296-
foreign services of, 297 et seq.-
triumphs of, at Waterloo, 301-in
Egypt and South Africa, ib. et seq.
IDA, MOUNT, 804.

IDYLL, THE CICALAS: AN, 516.
Imagination, use of, by the native
Indian, 45.

Imperial Press Conference, the, meet-
ings of, 123 et seq.-Lord Rosebery's
speech at, 123-Lord Morley's speech
at, 126.

Importunate demands, Oriental ex-
amples of, 41 et seq.

INDIA, LORD KITCHENER IN, 153.
INDIA, POLITICAL ASSASSINATION IN,
437.

INDIA, STRAY STORIES FROM, 38.
Indian Army, the, reorganisation of, by

Lord Kitchener, 155 et seq.-adminis-
trative changes effected in, 162 et seq.
Indian universities, need of, for native
students, 441.

INTELLECTUAL BANKRUPTCY OF LIBER-
ALISM, THE, 857.
International sports, the victors in, 289
-professionalism in, 290-the harm
of, 291-the Englishman's pessimism
regarding, ib. et seq.

Ireland, eighteenth-century travel in,
317 et seq.-drinking habits in, 318
et seq.-forging of franks in, 320—
coinage of, 321-holy wells in, 325–
smuggling in, 330-wrecking in, 332.
Ixtaccihuatl, or the White Lady, at-
tempted ascent of, 341 et seq.

Jeu de mail, the French game of, de-
scription of, 509 et seq.-playing of,
in England, 515.

JOHNSON, A SCOTTISH, 755.
JOHN TIPTOFT, 630.

Journalism, the province of, 126 et seq.
"King Lear," the play of, chief features
of, 570 et seq.-Garrick and Kean as
Lear in, 573-Sir Henry Irving in,
574-production of, at the Haymarket
Theatre, 575 et seq.

Kings of Madagascar, the piratical, 58.
Kitchener, Lord, reorganisation of the
Indian Army by, 155 et seq.-estab
lishment of local Staff College by,
160 et seq.-administrative changes
effected by, 162 et seq.

Land, history of, in Scotland, 425 et seq.
-improvement schemes on, 427 et seq.
-Radical delusions regarding, 431
et seq.

Las Palmas, description of, 208.
LEAVE, NINETY DAYS - NOWHERE,

810.

'Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the,'

collected and edited by Roger Ing.
pen, notice of, 577 et seq.
Liberal Government, the present, Lib-
eral measures offered by, 858.
LIBERALISM, THE INTELLECTUAL BANK-
RUPTCY OF, 85.
Life Guards, the :
Cavalry.

see Household

'Life of Field - Marshal Sir Neville
Chamberlain, G.C.B., G.C.S.I.,' by
G. W. Forrest, C.I.E., review of,
17 et seq.
LIGHTER SIDE OF MY OFFICIAL LIFE,
THE I., Early Days at the Irish Bar
Work
and the Home Office, 461-II.,
and Play at the Home Office, 606-
III., Secret Service, 769.
Literary embellishment, use of, by
Indian natives, 46 et seq.
Lloyd-George, Mr, the popular orations
of, 449 et seq.-example of self-adver-
tisement furnished by, 719 et seq.-
the "unearned increment" theory of,
721.

Lombroso, Professor, theories of, re-
garding crime and genius, 843-The
Man of Genius' by, 844 et seq.-work
of, as a criminologist, 848.
LORD HALIFAX TO HIS DAUGHTER, 793.
LORD KITCHENER IN INDIA, 153.
LORDS, DEMOCRACY IN THE, 30.
Lotocnaye, Sieur de, walking tour in
Ireland by, in 1796, 321 et seq.