I acknowledge, with thanks to the authors concerned, and to
Messrs. Macmillan and Co., their kind permission to reprint in
this volume the following passages: that on p. 102, from the
_Life of Lord Randolph Churchill_, by the Right Hon. Winston
Churchill; three extracts, on pp. 59, 62, 83, from _Mahdiism
and the Egyptian Soudan_, by Sir Francis Wingate; the passages
from Lord Morley's _Life of Gladstone_, on pp. 97, 98, 101,
110; and the passages from Lord Cromer's _Modern Egypt_,
on pp. 68, 69, 70, 87. I acknowledge also with thanks the
permission of the proprietors of _The Times_ to reprint the
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proprietors of _The Saturday Review_ to reprint the extract on
p. 35. In dealing with a period so recent, I have inevitably
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William Morris_, and from Mr. Bernard Holland's _Life of the
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