to pass wise and just laws, and to see that due consideration is given them. What Parliament has not always seen is that undue consideration is sometimes given. I sometimes believe, I sometimes bring myself to think, that some of those who are swaddled and brought up in Parliament and who spend long periods of life in Parliament are apt to forget this great elementary truth, and that they would not mind a Session which was absolutely barren of results as long as the speeches had been good and copious, and as long as the debating had remained at the high standard of the best traditions of the House of Commons. Surely that is all wrong. do not say we do not want better Parliamentary oratory, but we want a good deal less of it. If we could attain the standard to which Mr. Paul calls our attention we should not deem oratory always a waste of time. But to have Parliamentary time-so precious for many purposes-devoured by the speeches which have so little to recommend them except their length is a trial of patience to the lovers of all free institutions. You have not I mentioned the speaker of whom I sometimes think with the fondest admiration of all. Sir Joshua Reynolds ended his addresses at the Royal Academy by saying that he wished to end his discourses with the name of Michael Angelo. I, if I want a sentence to sit down on, will sit down on this-that I regard with honour, with admiration, and with constant envy, the memory of single-speech Hamilton. On July 7th, 1898, Dr. Charles Waldstein gave a Lecture at the Imperial Institute on "The Englishspeaking Brotherhood." Lord Rosebery was in the chair, and this Address is his after-lecture commentary. The lecturer pleaded for "English-speaking" as against" Anglo-Saxon," urging that the unsound ideas respecting our racial origin involved in the expression " Anglo-Saxon" would do more harm than good to the cause of a better understanding between Great Britain and the United States. But it will be noticed that "Anglo-Saxon" found in Lord Rosebery, if not a supporter, at least an apologist. THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING BROTHERHOOD I AM sure I am only expressing your views when I tender, on your behalf, our thanks to Professor Waldstein for the extremely interesting address he has delivered to us this afternoon. He has set forth with a fulness and eloquence, and a learning which leaves nothing to be desired, his views on a question which is, perhaps, of the most vital interest to the English-speaking brotherhood—to use his own expression-of any that can lie before them. And, although I may not agree in detail with all his views and with all that he has laid down, and it would, perhaps, be impossible for any two human beings to agree to so many propositions as he has laid down. in the course of his speech, I think we may |