The eighty Irish members ask for Home Rule, but the tenant farmers of Ireland ask not for Home Rule but for the ownership of the land; and the Irish tenant farmers will and may under a Unionist Government become owners of their land, and, what is no slight matter, may become owners by honest means.
Vain for Mr.M'Carthy[110] to assert that Irish farmers would not have accepted even from Mr.Parnell the most favourable of land laws in exchange for Home Rule.

Mr.M'Carthy believes what he says, but it is impossible for any student of Irish history or of Irish politics to believe Mr.M'Carthy.

Facts are too strong for him.

Mr.Lalor showed a prevision denied to our amiable novelist.

Gustave de Beaumont understood political philosophy better than the lively recorder of the superficial aspects of recent English history.