552 



The Review of Reviews. 



IRELAND, PAST AND PRESENT. 



CONSERVATIVE CRITICISM OF 

 CARSONISM. 



Public respect for the Conservative Party will 

 be greatly increased by what the Quarterly 



There is no change in public opinion like that 

 shown before the election of 1906. The writer 

 concludes that the Government will, so far as 

 can now be foreseen, retain office for at least 

 two years more, and will carry the Home Rule 



Bill some time in the 



year 1914. 



MINISTERS NOT GUILTY 

 OF TREASON. 



The writer next 

 deals faithfully with 

 the so-called argu- 

 ments of the Opposi- 

 tion leaders. The 

 charge of treasonable 

 action brought 

 against the Govern- 

 ment, the reviewer 

 coldly dismisses with 

 the remark that Sir 

 Edward Carson would 

 not have argued thus 

 in a court of law. 

 Such powers as the 

 Government received 

 to pass the Parlia- 

 ment Act are a recog- 

 nised part of the 



Review has to say on fhe Ulster 

 Covenant. Here speaks the true 

 Conservative spirit, sane, sober, 

 judicial, as far removed as 

 possible from the platform tan- 

 trums of the present Unionist 

 leaders. The writer turns a cold 

 douche of common sense upon the 

 rhetorical fireworks of these 

 so-called leaders. 



BYE-ELECTIONS INCONCLUSIVE. 



First of all. Unionist transports 

 on the results of recent bye- 

 elections are coolly dismissed. 

 Bye-elections are deceptive. A great many 

 adverse bye-elections would be necessary to 

 weaken perceptibly the Government majority. 



The Upper Hous«. 



constitution. The famous argument about the 

 constitution being in suspense because the pre- 

 amble of the Parliament Act has not been carried 



