Chamberlain's  '  lean,  long  head  and  adventurous  nose,'  a  man  who
is  from  time  to  time  possessed  of  one  idea  and  advances  it  with
tremendous  energy.  He  will  have  none  of  his  Protection  :  '  it  would
be  a  demented  country  that  believed  him.'  If  the  journalistic  advo-
cates of  tariff  reform  had  been  able  to  lay  hands  on  certain  very
anti-Cobdenite  sentiments  which  appeared  in  the  editorial  columns  of
the  Ipswich  Journal  somewhere  about  i860  they  might  have  had  some
sport  at  the  expense  of  Mr.  Chamberlain's  unsparing  critic  !

Russia  is  still  an  anxiety  to  Europe  when  a  disciple  of  Tolstoy —
Mr.  G.  H.  Perris — goes  down  to  Box  Hill,  and  one  more  interview
on  the  situation  comes  out  in  the  Westminster  Gazette  of  February
9,  1905.  Then  comes  the  General  Election  of  1906  and  more  letters
to  Liberals.  He  is  even  conveyed  in  his  little  donkey-chaise  all  the
way  from  Box  Hill  to  Leatherhead  on  Friday,  January  26,  that  he
may  vote  for  the  Liberal  candidate  for  Epsom.  '  I  hope  it  will  be
the  last  time  I  shall  have  to  vote  against  Protection,'  he  says,  when
he  gets  home,  after  his  remarkable  and  much-applauded  undertaking.
