[3] Fortnightly Review, October, 1874, vol. xvi., p. 412.
[4] Byron, Don Juan, Canto ix. lxxxiv.
[5] B. O’Brien, Life of Parnell, second edition, i. 163.
[6] ‘That this House, having been informed in her Majesty’s gracious Speech that the conditions on which her Majesty’s neutrality is founded have not been infringed by either belligerent engaged in the war in the East of Europe, and having since received no information sufficient to justify a departure from the policy of neutrality and peace, sees no reason for adding to the burdens of the people by voting unnecessary supplies.’
[7] ‘Elijah’s Mantle,’ Fortnightly Review, May, 1883.
[8] I have been greatly assisted in this chapter by the excellent accounts of the Fourth Party proceedings contributed by Mr. Harold Gorst to the Nineteenth Century from November 1902 to January 1903. In relating some incidents, notably on pages 153 and 161, I have by his permission used his actual words.
[9] Life of Parnell, R. Barry O’Brien, vol. i. 247.
[10] Cf. Mr. Forster’s ‘village ruffians.’
[11] Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa, p. 23.
[12] Abridged.