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Contents

Book VIII. 1880-1885

Chapter I. Opening Days Of The New Parliament. (1880)

Chapter II. An Episode In Toleration. (1880-1883)

Chapter III. Majuba. (1880-1881)

Chapter IV. New Phases Of The Irish Revolution. (1880-1882)

Chapter V. Egypt. (1881-1882)

Chapter VI. Political Jubilee. (1882-1883)

Chapter VII. Colleagues—Northern Cruise—Egypt. (1883)

Chapter VIII. Reform. (1884)

Chapter IX. The Soudan. (1884-1885)

Chapter X. Interior Of The Cabinet. (1895)

Chapter XI. Defeat Of Ministers. (May-June 1885)

Chapter XII. Accession Of Lord Salisbury. (1885)

Book IX. 1885-1886

Chapter I. Leadership And The General Election. (1885)

Chapter II. The Polls In 1885. (1885)

Chapter III. A Critical Month (December 1885)

Chapter IV. Fall Of The First Salisbury Government. (January 1886)

Chapter V. The New Policy. (1886)

Chapter VI. Introduction Of The Bill. (1886)

Chapter VII. The Political Atmosphere. Defeat Of The Bill. (1886)

Book X. 1886-1892

Chapter I. The Morrow Of Defeat. (1886-1887)

Chapter II. The Alternative Policy In Act. (1886-1888)

Chapter III. The Special Commission. (1887-1890)

Chapter IV. An Interim. (1889-1891)

Chapter V. Breach With Mr. Parnell. (1890-1891)

Chapter VI. Biarritz. (1891-1892)

Chapter VII. The Fourth Administration. (1892-1894)

Chapter VIII. Retirement From Public Life. (1894)

Chapter IX. The Close. (1894-1898)

Chapter X. Final.

Appendix

Irish Local Government, 1883. (Page 103)

General Gordon's Instructions. (Page 153)

The Military Position In The Soudan, April 1885. (Page 179)

Home Rule Bill, 1886. (Page 308)

On The Place Of Italy. (Page 415)

The Glasgow Peroration. (Page 492)

The Naval Estimates Of 1894.

Mr. Gladstone's Cabinet Colleagues. (Page 525)

Chronology

Footnotes