Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Inner Life of the House of Commons, Vol. 1
Eit has been a labour of love to rue - one must use these old w familiar phrases sometimes for the better expression of one's gmeaning - to go over these records which Mr. White has g left to the public. My own recollections of the House of i Commons extend over a great part of the time which is covered by Mr. White's descriptions of Parliamentary life. I first attended the House as a reporter in the Press Gallery at the opening of the Session of 1860. But I had often 3 before that time as a young man visiting London found 0 an opportunity of hearing a debate in the House of Lords g and in the House of Commons. I have a clear recollection of all the principal figures which Mr. White describes. I remember Brougham well, and had some slight personal acquaintance with him. I remember Lord Lyndhurst and, of course, I remember Lord Palmerston. I do not remember Sir Robert Peel - the great Sir Robert Peel. He died before I ever saw London. But for the most part while greading through Mr. White's columns I found myself in an gassemblage of familiar forms. My own impressions of the men whom Mr. White describes are, with very few excep tions, entirely in accordance with the estimate he makes and with the picture he paints.
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