John Morley: “Lord Salisbury’s clear and rationalising understanding might have been expected to carry him to a thoroughgoing…”

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.