CHAPTER IX.
DAVID IS CALLED TO THE BAR 1902 was the year of King Edward's break-down in health but of his ultimate Coronation; it was the year in which Mr.Arthur Balfour became premier; it was the year in which motors became really well-known, familiar objects in the London streets, and hansoms (I think) had to adopt taximeter clocks on the eve of their displacement by taxi-cabs.

It was likewise the year in which the South African War was finally wound up and the star of Joseph Chamberlain paled to its setting, and Mrs.Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel founded the Women's Social and Political Union at Manchester.
In 1903, the Fiscal controversy absorbed much of public attention, the War Office was once more reformed, women's skirts still swept the pavement and encumbered the ball-room, a Peeress wrote to the _Times_ to complain of Modern Manners, Surrey beat Something-or-other at the Oval, and modern Cricket was voted dull.
In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War was concluded, and _Fraser and Warren_ received a year's notice from the Midland Insurance Co.

that they must vacate their premises on the fifth floor of Nos.

88-90 Chancery Lane.

The business of _F.