of the unprivileged citizen till his heart failed him, and he ceased to think life worth living. Sometimes we feel that this may be the lot of the British Empire also. And Liberalism is always ready to advocate the setting up of one more department, with all its consequent expense. It may seem curious that a tendency towards overgovernment should be accompanied in the Liberal mentality by another tendency which we can only describe as anti-governmental, namely, a dislike to enforce the law whenever any sort of a defence can be made for the lawbreaker on sentimental, humanitarian, religious, or political grounds. The whole of Mr Birrell's long and disastrous administration of Ireland was a series of refusals to deal sternly with lawlessness, because the offenders alleged patriotic and political reasons for their misdoings. It is not too much to say that if the affairs of Ireland had been in less incompetent and nerveless hands than those of Mr Birrell we might have been spared the horrors of revolution and bloodshed which have ensued. The responsibility for this must be shared by those who retained him in office after his inefficiency had been amply demonstrated. And six years of this treatment sufficed to turn a country which had been handed over to the Liberals by Mr Balfour in a state of tranquillity and prosperity such as it had not known for a century, into a home of sporadic outrage, which gave good promise of developing into the pandemonium of later years. But it was not only Irish rebels with whom Liberalism dealt with a silly kindness, but all sorts of minor insurgents against law and order-suffragettes, Trades Unionists engaged in violent picketing, anti-vaccinationists, strikers, and all freaks who set themselves to disregard national regulations from alleged moral or religious motives. This developed in many Liberals during the Great War into a sentimental reluctance to treat open offenders against the will of the State in a time of its dire need-such as passive resisters and conscientious objectors—with the stern justice that they deserved. It is fair to say that this feeble humanitarianism did not affect all Liberals during the war: some shook themselves free from the traditional party weakness, and behaved admirably. But there was always a large body which moaned TWO HUNDRED AND FORTIETH VOLUME OF THE [Titles of Articles are printed in heavier type. The names of authors of Air Conference, at the Guildhall, Air Force, a National, 82. Air Policy, An Imperial, 74–92. Airships, advantage of, 79. Alchemy, the science, 296. Allen, Carleton Kemp, 'Bureaucracy Animal luminescence, 219. • Annual Register,' extract from, 158. Ants, leaf-cutting, habits, 220. Arabs, study of the science of medi- Aristotle, translations of his works, Asquith, Rt Hon. H. 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