• Mr. W. H. Mallock, best known as yet by
his very clever parodies of modern men of learning and letters in "The New Republic," is trying to persuade the St. Andrew's Burghs to accept him as their Conservative representative in Parliament -at the next General Election. He addressed a Conservative Club in Cupar Fife on Tuesday, and fulminated against Radi- calism, as the destructive form which Liberalism is more and more assaming. Everything in our institutions, he said, which Mr. Gladstone regards with earnest loyalty, Mr. Chamberlain and Ate Radicals ridicule. "Mr. Chamberlain is heard ; Mr. -Jesse Collings is heard ; the solemn loquacity of Mr. John Morley is heard; but if Lord Hartington is heard, he is only heard as a reluctant echo ; if Mr. Bright is heard, he is beard -only like the mutterings of a retreating thunderstorm." Well, we may apply the same kind of remark with equal truth to the Conservatives. We may say justly enough that Sir Henry Drummond Wolff is heard ; Mr. Ash mead-Bartlett is heard ; the pert loquacity of Lord Randolph Churchill is heard ; but if Sir Stafford Northcote is heard, he is heard only as a reluc- tant echo; and if Lord John Manners is heard, he is heard only as the Christmas waits are heard, in the intervals of pleasant ulumber. Mr. Mallock himself seems to us to have done at least
as much in his book on Equality to undermine the foundations of true Conservatism, as Mr. Jesse Collings—even if he be Socialistic in bias—will ever do to undermine true Liberalism.
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