Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . ch Northern Squadron to thisisland was certainly the entertainment of Vice-AdmiralCaillard, his officers, and their ladies, at a banquet inWestminster Hall by both Houses of Parliament, withthe Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, and theSpeaker to bid them welcome. The heartiness of theu-reception was probably all the more appreciated bythe French sailors o^ving to the traditional beliefabroad that the people of this country on such occa-sions are
Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, . ch Northern Squadron to thisisland was certainly the entertainment of Vice-AdmiralCaillard, his officers, and their ladies, at a banquet inWestminster Hall by both Houses of Parliament, withthe Prime Minister, the Lord Chancellor, and theSpeaker to bid them welcome. The heartiness of theu-reception was probably all the more appreciated bythe French sailors o^ving to the traditional beliefabroad that the people of this country on such occa-sions are unsympathetic and indifferent. The officers were smart and alert young men, boldand resolute of face, and they had that breezy ex-pansiveness of manner, with something of the smackof salt in it, which the briny, far-spreading sea seemsalways to impart to those who spend their lives withher in intimate association. After the luncheon the officers and ladies werebrought on to the Terrace, and a group photograpliodwith M. Paul Cambon, the French Ambassador, in thecentre, Vice-Adrairal Caillard on his right, and Kear-Admiral Leygue on his DR. T. J. MACNAMARA. It is true that that success in the House of Commonswhich is represented by early appointment to officestill depends largely on aristocratic connections. A manwho has the advantages of birth and rank may rapidlyIise to an official position to which another of equaltalent, but of democratic connections, may be yearsin reaching, or, indeed, may never attain at all. But there is a more en^iable kind of success in theHouse, to the achievement of which neither birth norrank affords any assistance whatever. That is inclusion,not among the office-holders on the Treasury Bench,but among the twenty or thirty members, out of thesix hundred and seventy, who have a hold on theassembly, who compel the attention of the a position is to be reached only by ability andforce of character, by force of character especially,for
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