22 AUGUST 1903, page 19

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MACAULAY'S ESSAYS.* THE time has only just come when it is possible to arrive at a fair judgment of Macaulay's indubitable talent. He was so vastly overpraised in his own day,......

Cobden And The Corn-laws.* One Of The Commonest Cant Phrases

of the present con- troversy is that it is worse than useless to quote Cobden or the early Free-traders. If it is merely meant that the con- ditions have changed, that......