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To few men would sympathy more unstinted and more sincere

flow out in any bereavement than to Mr. Lansbury. Mentem mortalia tangunt, and Mr. Lansbury is 'intensely human. His.political adversaries are many ; they number at present four-fifths of the present House of Commons; but his political enemies, it is safe to say, are non-existent. His critics complain, no doubt, that his heart runs away with his head. That makes it all the easier to gauge the depth of his domestic affections, and there was no one, I suppose, in the House who did not hear with genuine sorrow of the death of the wife who had married him when she was under twenty and shared the vicissitudes of a life never restful and often financially straitened for more than fifty years.