. Review of reviews and world's work. -trator he will be painstaking, and as a platformspeaker and a deliverer of set orations he is ad-mirable. But it is to be hoped that there willbe no grave internal or external crisis in Indiaduring his stay at the India office. He is sixty-seven, married, but childless. He was a stanchpro-Boer, and is a stalwart Home Rulei*. Mr. Richard B. Haldane, the secretary ofstate for war, is a Scotchman with Germantraining and Jesuitical temperament, with a nat-ural gift for intrigue ripened by much exercise,—a man in whom many people believe and morepeople distrus
. Review of reviews and world's work. -trator he will be painstaking, and as a platformspeaker and a deliverer of set orations he is ad-mirable. But it is to be hoped that there willbe no grave internal or external crisis in Indiaduring his stay at the India office. He is sixty-seven, married, but childless. He was a stanchpro-Boer, and is a stalwart Home Rulei*. Mr. Richard B. Haldane, the secretary ofstate for war, is a Scotchman with Germantraining and Jesuitical temperament, with a nat-ural gift for intrigue ripened by much exercise,—a man in whom many people believe and morepeople distrust, but who believes supremely inhimself. He is forty-nine, and unmarried. Mr. James Bryce, the chief secretaiy for Ire-land, is the only Irishman in the cabinet. Heis a Scottish Presbyterian from Wales who sitsfor Aberdeen, having left Ireland so long agothat most people believe him to be a Scotch-man. The post is uncongenial. Mr. Bryce isone of the ablest men in the government, buthe is not tough enough for the Irish office.
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