 During the next two years he wrote "The Arbiter in Council", an imaginary dialogue in which the Arbiter, an old Cobdenite Radical, discusses the issues of war and peace.Morley recommended it to Macmillan and it was published anonymously but the authorship came to be known.In 1903 he married Helena Mary Carroll Cobden at Heyshott, near Midhurst, West Sussex.