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...after they have proved to be wrong or mistaken. True enough this is no new idea--the Vagabond does not flatter himself so much as to suggest that--but it struck him rather forcibly last night when he noticed that Professor C. K. Webster was going to speak on Palmerston and the Eastern Question at 10 o'clock this morning in Harvard 3. When he tried to think what he really knew about Palmerston, the humble writer of this column found himself at the edge of a void, or rather an abyss in which he could see only one object...
...that he has confessed so much, the Vagabond may confess something more. He is not going to the lecture this morning because he particularly wants to have described to him the finger which Palmerston had in the Near Eastern pie; he is going to hear Professor Webster. This gentleman is an exchange professor from the University of Liverpool with a passion for a fresh air and a subtle English humor which would enliven any subject that needed resuscitation and make supremely interesting one that is already alive...
Viscount Henry Palmerston...
...PUBLIC LIFE-J. A. Spender-Stokes (2 vols., $10.00). Public life, as defined by the author for his purpose, is the profession of statesmen and politicians. This profession he exemplifies by some monographs on famous statesmen and politicians-Bright, Cobden, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Chamberlain, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, George-by analyzing the parliamentary duties of politicians, by contrasting the British parliamentary system with the systems of the U. S., France and Germany, by conducting a brilliant inquiry into the problems of statecraft, by examining the relations between people and press, press and government and by descanting on political ethics...
Since 1735, many great men have resided at No. 10-the Pitts, North, Canning, Goderich, Wellington, Melbourne with his erring wife, Peel, Russell, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Salisbury-in all, 39 Prime Ministers, including Mr. Baldwin...