Their first achievement was last year's " Summer School "
at Oxford and the collected volume of " Essays in Liberalism ""which resulted from it But they failed to impose their point of view and, programme on their party at. the election and, indeed, attacked on one side by the. veiled Socialism of the Nation and its adherents, and on the other by the veiled Conservatism of the older members-of their party who looked to reunion with the Lloyd Georgian Liberals, their position was not a happy one. Now, however, that they seem likely to get control of the .Nation and to become.he progressive wing of Liberalism,' their. influence _may beArlinitely, felt, and though we shall certainly disagree with them on ,many,-indeed, on most—subjects, we cannot but feel that-this influence will be of great value; and especially of educational value, since itwill spring from the applica- tion of trained minds to the problems that beset us.
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