[98] Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort.
[99] Life and Labours of Albany Fonblanque, p. 217.
[100] Morley’s Life of Cobden.
[101] This was a favourite idea with the Duke. He attributed our Afghan disasters to our failure to keep open our communications.
[102] Forty Years’ Recollections, by Thomas Frost, p. 161.
[103] Young Ireland: a Fragment of Irish History, by Sir C. Gavan Duffy (Cassell & Company).
[104] Young Ireland. Fortnightly Review, December, 1880.
[105] “It is a peculiarity of Irish rebellion that it counts so much on the co-operation of women, who are to be nothing less than unsexed for its purposes. “Women are to squirt vitriol, and women are to put on hoops—not hoops on their own persons, but hoops on the persons of her Majesty’s soldiers, hoops wrapped round with turpentine, steeped in tow and fired.... The Felon newspaper has run its short course. An apter name should be chosen for the next organ of the Mitchel doctrines. The Fiend should be the title.”—Examiner.
[106] New Ireland, Sixth Edition, p. 91.
[107] Prince Bismarck: An Historical Biography, by Charles Lowe, M.A., Vol. I., p. 63.