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Title: Sir Benjamin Stone's pictures; records of national life and history reproduced from the collection of photographs made by Sir Benjamin Stone, M.P
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Stone, John Benjamin, Sir, 1838-1914 MacDonagh, Michael, 1862-1946
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament Statesmen
Publisher: London : Cassell
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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icalopinions. Such a conception of the House falls veryfar short of its due. It is something greater than that.Anyone who examines the composition of the Member-slaip of the House, as set out in the Parliamentaryreference books, will see how representative it is, notonly of the political opinions of the Nation, but ofthe Nations intellect, learning, science, its practicalexperience, its business capacity and enterprise. Thusthere is at the disposal of the House a vast andvaried mass of knowledge and observation to drawupon in the discussion of the concerns of the Empire.High among the representatives of scholarship inthe House was Sir Richard Jebb, one of the repre-sentatives of Cambridge University, and its RegiusProfessor of Greek up to the time of his death inDecember, 1905. In the consideration of questionsof education, esjDecially, his trained intellect and eruditeattainments were most valuable. The House alwayswelcomed his sootliing and persuasive contributions toits debates. 91
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THE EARL OF HALSBURYAND ADMIRAL LEYGUE. It would be natural to expect strikingly contrastedtypes, of personality and of temperament, between anEnglish Lord Chancellor and a French Admiral. Howdissimilar are the qualities and characteristics of thetwo Nations! How far apart, in circumstances and inthought, are the professions of the Law and the Sea!Yet when the Earl of Halsbuiy and Rear-AdmiralLeygue met at tlie liistoric entertainment of tlie oflicersof the French Navy by the Houses of Parliament inWestminster Hall on tlie 12th of August, 1905, itwas not so much points of difference as points ofcomparison that were fm-nished ; it was not a distinctionbut a harmony in individuality that was apparent, Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Earl of Halsbury, andthree times Lord High Chancellor of P)ngland, waseighty years of age on that memorable occasion whenthe friendship of the two great neighboui-ing peopleswas sealed in Westminster Hall. Nevertheless, he wasin the fullest vigour, mental and phys

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