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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



Becemher ], 191S. 



with all the Chock-taw scalps and beads 

 appurtenant to his pyrotechnics. It 

 would be easy to shoot him and have 

 done with this Ulster braggadocio, but 

 it will be far more dignified and pro- 

 fitable to treat with him. After all, he 

 is an honourable man, as they in Ulster 

 and we ourselves are all honourable men. 

 The thing is to get this problem solved, 

 not to unloosen it for another ; for that 

 some mediatory scheme can be contrived, 

 that some solution satisfactory to both 

 North and South can be arrived at, is 

 surely not beyond the means of honest 

 co-operation and compromise. 



TO AVERT CIVIL WAR. 



After a generation of ups and downs 

 the question of Home Rule has reached 

 its penultimate stage. The battledore 

 and shuttlecock of political warfare 

 has produced the inevitable majority 

 rule verdict — and the minority is very 

 sick and sore. Minorities exist to be 

 educated by the logic of events, but the 

 minority in Ireland have been so long 

 accustomed to exercise supreme authority 

 and refuse to recognise the rules of the 

 game. In the " Nineteenth Century " 

 Sir Henry Blake asks, " How is Civil 

 War to be averted" and, while approv- 

 ing Lord Loreburn's intervention, is at 

 great pains to approve the wilfulness of 

 Orange Ulster in threatening to dispute 

 the issue by armed resistance. He says : 



It may be that the party of Coalition would 

 call this rebellion, or, if successful, revolu- 

 tion. Unionists look upon it as a leg-itimate 

 resistance to revolution born on the other 

 side of the Atlantic of the enemies of Eng- 

 land, bred in the House of Commons by 

 their paid emissaries, and purchased from 

 the party now in power as the price of office, 

 with the destruction of our ancient Consti- 

 tution thrown in. 



This is not the language of concilia- 

 tion, nor is it likely to induce that 

 friendliness without which any confer- 

 ence is foredoomed to failure ; and it 

 is only begging the question to assert 

 that " Home Rule Ireland without Ulster 

 would be hopelessly bankrupt." 



SETTLEMENT BY AGREEMENT. 



In the same review Sir Bampfylde 

 Fuller gives " A Psychological View of 



the Irish Question," and treats the whole 

 situation with the true catholic spirit of 

 toleration. Upon the vexed question he 

 says : — 



Will the Orang-emen fight? To judge from 

 their words, they certainly will. But words 

 are misleading, and there are a number of 

 facts which appear to indicate that their 

 mood is not so warlike as their way of ex- 

 pressing it. Political history leads us to- 

 expect that when men's minds are inflamed 

 by ideas which they are prepared to achieve 

 by violence, sparks will break out in the form 

 of demonstrative outrages. These have 

 punctuated the advancing influence of Irish 

 Home Rule and have been known to per- 

 suade earnest statesmen of the intrinsic jus- 

 tice of Ireland's demands. There have been 

 no such demonstrations against Home Rule. 

 Ulstermen, it is said, are a law-abiding 

 people. But some of their more ardent 

 spirits might have been expected to break 

 loose from convention. Again, if the Orange- 

 men were preparing for war, they would 

 surely have chosen for their leader a 

 " strong, silent man " of the type of their 

 national hero, William the Third. Sir Ed- 

 ward Carson is no doubt sincere in his elo- 

 quence, but he is hardly " a man of blood 

 and iron." 



Wahre Jacoh.2 fStuttgart. 



THE MAN WHO RUNS AMOK IN PEACE AND 



WAR. 



In Peace he is con- In AVar the worst 



eidered a terrifying murderer is honoured 

 criminal. as a hero. 



