, 1886.

_ 204 Hans._ 304, p. 1134. Also 305, p. 1252.

205 When the bill was practically settled, he asked if he might have a
draft of the main provisions, for communication to half a dozen of
his confidential colleagues. After some demur, the Irish secretary
consented, warning him of the damaging consequences of any premature
divulgation. The draft was duly returned, and not a word leaked out.
Some time afterwards Mr. Parnell recalled the incident to me. "Three
of the men to whom I showed the draft were newspaper men, and they
were poor men, and any newspaper would have given them a thousand
pounds for it. No very wonderful virtue, you may say. But how many
of your House of Commons would believe it?"

206 For this point, see the _Times_ report of the famous proceedings in
Committee-room Fifteen, collected in the volume entitled _The
Parnellite Split_ (1891).

M118 Subterranean Activity
M119 Strength And Weakness
M120 Correspondence With Mr. Bright

207 Letter to Mr. T. H. Bolton, M.P. _Times_, May 8, 1886.

_ 208 Hans._ 306, p. 698.

M121 Few Secondary Arguments

_ 209 Hans._ 306, p. 1218.

210 In the end exactly 93 liberals did vote against the bill.

M122 Party Meeting

_ 211 Hans._ 306, p. 322.

M123 Death-Warrant Of The Bill
M124 End Of The Debate
M125 Dissolution Of Parliament
M126 At Edinburgh

212 He was returned without opposition.

M127 Cabinet Resign
M128 At Tegernsee

213 On the Irish Question.--"The History of an Idea and the Lesson of the
Elections," a fifty-page pamphlet prepared before leaving England.

_ 214 Speaker_, Jan. 1, 1890.

_ 215 Conversations of Doellinger._ By L. von Koebell, pp. 100, 102.

_ 216 Nineteenth Century_, January 1887. See also speech at Hawarden, on
the Queen's Reign, August 30, 1887. The reader will remember Mr.
Gladstone's contrast between poet and active statesman at Kirkwall
in 1883.

_ 217 Robert Elsmere: the Battle of Belief_ (1888). Republished from the
_Nineteenth Century_ in _Later Gleanings_, 1898.

218 May 2, 1888.

M129 Dissentient Position

219 See vol. i. p. 423.

220 Sir W. Harcourt, Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Herschell, Sir George
Trevelyan, and myself.

M130 Round Table Conference

221 See speeches at Hawick, Jan. 22, and at Birmingham, Jan. 29, 1887.

_ 222 Baptist_ article, in _Times_,