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Mr. Disraeli's address has not been well received in Ireland,

where it is called a "war-whoop," "a shriek compounded of malignity, of defiance, and of despair." But that is Irish exag- geration. There is no malignity, and no defiance, in Hobson's choice, though a good deal of despair. Mr. Disraeli's choice of a

policy was but Hobson's choice. Even Hobson, when once he had chosen, probably went in for his line with a triumphant whoop.

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