CONTENTS 



PART II 



I9OO TO I914 



PAGK 



CHAPTER 



Foreword to Part II v " 



I. Death of Queen Victoria, 1901 1 



II. George Wyndham's Irish Land Bill, 1902 32 



III. Cromer Begins to Make Mistakes 7 6 



IV. Literature and Politics ti 3 

 V. The Beginning of Grey's Blunders — Akabah 133 



VI. Francis Thompson *68 



VII. Asquith at Downing Street 199 



VIII. King Edward's Death 286 



IX. George V, King 3°9 



X. The French Invade Morocco 334 



XL General Trouble in Eastern Europe 376 



XII. The War with Germany Declared 4*6 



APPENDICES 



I. The Grand Mufti of Egypt to Count Leo Tolstoi 437 



II. The Akabah Quarrel 439 



III. Dhingra's Dying Speech and Execution 443 



IV. Mr. Blunt's Memorandum on Prison Reform, Especially 



as to the Treatment of Political Prisoners 445 



V. The Italian Massacre of Arab Peasantry in Tripoli 452 



VI. Sir Roger Casement's Letters to Mr. Blunt 455 



VII. Miss Frances Jennings to Miss Elizabeth Lawrence 458 



VIII. Chronology of Events 460 



Index 477 



