PREFACE IN compiling this work the authors have been much assisted by the publications of the Conservative Publication Department, the Liberal Publication Department, and the Liberal Unionist Council; by The Times newspaper; and by the reports of Hansard's Parliamentary Debates. They have to express their special thanks to Mr. Will Crooks, M.P., Dr. A. P. Hillier, Mr. Charles Geake, the Secretary of the Liberal Publication Department; and also to Mr. C. G. Hennings, the Secretary of the Conservative Central Office, who most kindly read through the proofs, and freely placed his political knowledge at the service of the authors. IFIELD HALL, CRAWLEY, H. M. P. G. C. SUSSEX. |