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tributions to "The Fortnightly," "Macmillan," and "The Weekly' Dispatch," have, apart from his platform utterances, marked him out as a vigorous political thinker, on whom Radical constituencies should keep an eye. He is a tried soldier in the ranks of democracy, who well deserves promotion at the people's hands, all the more so because he would be the last to seek it.