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Title: Prime Ministers and Some Others
A Book of Reminiscences
Author: George W. E. Russell
Release Date: August 12, 2005 [EBook #16519]
Language: English
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PRIME MINISTERS
AND SOME OTHERS
A BOOK OF REMINISCENCES BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
GEORGE W. E. RUSSELL
TO
THE EARL CURZON OF KEDLESTON,
K.G.,
I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK,
NOT SHARING HIS OPINIONS BUT
PRIZING HIS FRIENDSHIP
NOTE
My cordial thanks for leave to reproduce papers already published
are due to my friend Mr. John Murray, and to the Editors of the
_Cornhill Magazine_, the _Spectator_, the _Daily News_, the _Manchester
Guardian_, the _Church Family Newspaper_, and the _Red Triangle_.
G. W. E. R.
_July_, 1918.
CONTENTS
I.--PRIME MINISTERS
I. LORD PALMERSTON
II. LORD RUSSELL
III. LORD DERBY
IV. BENJAMIN DISRAELI
V. WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
VI. LORD SALISBURY
VIII. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR
IX. HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN
II.--IN HONOUR OF FRIENDSHIP
I. GLADSTONE--AFTER TWENTY YEARS
II. HENRY SCOTT HOLLAND
III. LORD HALLIFAX
IV. LORD AND LADY RIPON
V. "FREDDY LEVESON"
VI. SAMUEL WHITBREAD
VII. HENRY MONTAGU BUTLER
VIII. BASIL WILBERFORCE
IX. EDITH SICHEL
X. "WILL" GLADSTONE
XI. LORD CHARLES RUSSELL
III.--RELIGION AND THE CHURCH
I. A STRANGE EPIPHANY
II. THE ROMANCE OF RENUNCIATION
III. PAN-ANGLICANISM
IV. LIFE AND LIBERTY
V. LOVE AND PUNISHMENT
VI. HATRED AND LOVE
VII. THE TRIUMPHS OF ENDURANCE
VIII. A SOLEMN FARCE
IV.--POLITICS
I. MIRAGE
II. MIST
III. "DISSOLVING THROES"
IV. INSTITUTIONS AND CHARACTER
V. REVOLUTION--AND RATIONS
VI. "THE INCOMPATIBLES"
VII. FREEDOM'S NEW FRIENDS
V.--EDUCATION
I. EDUCATION AND THE JUDGE
II. THE GOLDEN LADDER
III. OASES
IV. LIFE, LIBERTY, AND JUSTICE
V. THE STATE AND THE BOY
VI. A PLEA FOR INNOCENTS
VI.--MISCELLANEA
I. THE "HUMOROUS STAGE"
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