Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 40923-h.htm or 40923-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40923/40923-h/40923-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40923/40923-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://archive.org/details/cu31924028287724 BRITISH POLITICAL LEADERS * * * * * _BY THE SAME AUTHOR._ IN THE "Story of the Nations" Series. Each volume large crown 8vo, cloth, fully Illustrated, 5s. MODERN ENGLAND BEFORE THE REFORM BILL. MODERN ENGLAND UNDER QUEEN VICTORIA. _IN PREPARATION._ PORTRAITS OF THE SIXTIES. Demy 8vo, cloth, Illustrated, 16s. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN. * * * * * [Illustration: Photograph copyright by Elliott & Fry ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR] BRITISH POLITICAL LEADERS by JUSTIN McCARTHY With Portraits [Illustration] London T. Fisher Unwin Paternoster Square 1903 [All rights reserved.] CONTENTS 1. ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR 1 2. LORD SALISBURY 25 3. LORD ROSEBERY 49 4. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN 73 5. HENRY LABOUCHERE 99 6. JOHN MORLEY 125 7. LORD ABERDEEN 151 8. JOHN BURNS 177 9. SIR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH 203 10. JOHN E. REDMOND 229 11. SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT 255 12. JAMES BRYCE 281 13. SIR HENRY CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN 307 ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR