Apart, however, from any such deliberate unfairness, the communication of speeches in advance to the Press should be strenuously discountenanced.

Many official members showed that they could perfectly well dispense with the doubtful advantage of knowing beforehand exactly what their critics were going to say, and, if once this practice is stopped, newspapers, relieved from the temptation of giving undue preference to easy "copy," will learn to cultivate and to rely upon more legitimate methods of reporting.

It is to be hoped also that the _Gazette of India_, which publishes the official verbatim reports, will not in future lag so far behind the actual proceedings.
All these are minor points.

The dominant feature of the Session was that in spite of wide divergences of views, the proceedings were generally dignified, sometimes even to the verge of dulness, and with one or two exceptions they were marked by good feeling on all sides.

It would be unfair not to give to Mr.Gokhale his full share of credit for this happy result.