Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . ities of our statesmen. The man they are most anxious to interview isthe Prime Minister. It is to him personally that theydesii-e to confide the wonderful schemes and speculationsof their distraught minds for making straight aU thecrooked twists in the social system. Happy, then, is the Prime Minister who has theprotection of so capable a private secretary as Mr. J. Such were his tact, geniality, and good sensewhile acting in that cajjac


Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . ities of our statesmen. The man they are most anxious to interview isthe Prime Minister. It is to him personally that theydesii-e to confide the wonderful schemes and speculationsof their distraught minds for making straight aU thecrooked twists in the social system. Happy, then, is the Prime Minister who has theprotection of so capable a private secretary as Mr. J. Such were his tact, geniality, and good sensewhile acting in that cajjacity for Mr. Arthur Balfour,that the crazy old lady who says the Crowni hasrobbed her of £30,000,000, and the lunatic engineerwith a jjlan for uniting Ireland with England by abridge thrown across the Channel rid the Isle of l\ran,and thus settling tlie Irish problem, went away, afterevery fruitless attempt to see the First Lord of the Trea-sury, as pleased almost as if the dearest projects of theirhearts were about to be accomplished. On the resigna-tion of Mr. Balfour in December, 1905, Mr. Sandarswas made a member of the Privy Council. 37.


Size: 1390px × 1797px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectgreatbritainparliame