25 NOVEMBER 1905, Page 15

Will he not, then, christen it anew, or is it

to be simply "the great Unnameable "? Nay, I go further, and ask why, if he really has a positive definite policy which be believes in him- self, he does not take more trouble to expound and explain it, to anticipate possible objections, to set it forth in theory, to justify it by facts; in short, to discuss it fairly and frankly with the country. Instead of that we have a pamphlet and a very few speeches, all readable enough, but all very vague, thin, and academic, and suggestive of nothing so much as that their author is heartily sick of the whole question, and exceedingly vexed it.ahould ever have been raised by his restless and masterful colleague.—I am, Sir, Ste., J.. R. A.