Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question

BEING
ARTICLES ON THE IRISH QUESTION
THE RIGHT HON. W.E. GLADSTONE, M.P. THE RIGHT HON. JOHN MORLEY, M.P., LORD THRING JAMES BRYCE, M.P., CANON MACCOLL E.L. GODKIN, AND R. BARRY O'BRIEN
WITH PREFACE BY
THE RIGHT HON. EARL SPENCER, K.G.
EDITED BY
JAMES BRYCE, M.P.
SECOND EDITION
LONDON
KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., I, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1887
Of the articles contained in this volume, those by Mr. Gladstone, Mr. E.L. Godkin on A Lawyer's Objections to Home Rule, and Mr. Barry O'Brien appear for the first time. The others are reprinted from the Contemporary Review , the Nineteenth Century , and the New Princeton Review , to the proprietors and editors of which periodicals respectively the thanks of the several writers and of the editor are tendered. In most of these reprints some passages of transitory interest have been omitted, and some few additions have been made.
The object of the writers has been to treat the difficult questions connected with the Government of Ireland in a dispassionate spirit; and the volume is offered to the public in the hope that it may, at a time of warm controversy over passing events, help to lead thoughtful men back to the consideration of the principles which underlie those questions, and which it seeks to elucidate by calm discussion and by references to history.