Home Rule, the question of: Home Rule not dead, 39; the present attitude of the Liberal and the 'Nationalist' parties towards Home Rule, 40; it is a 'Present Irish Question,' 41; Isaac Butt inaugurated this policy, ibid.; his plan of Home Rule, 42; the Irish Home Rule party, 43; Butt's proposals powerfully attacked in Parliament, notably by Mr. Gladstone, ibid.; Butt is gradually supplanted by Parnell, 44; Michael Davitt and the 'New Departure,' ibid.; Parnell the head of the Land League, 44, 45; Mr. Gladstone succumbs to it, 45; Home Rule condemned by statesmen of all parties in 1880-84, ibid.; Mr. Gladstone accepts Home Rule, 47; the first Home Rule Bill of 1886, 48; its characteristics and the objections to it, 48-50; what its results would have been, 51-54; the Bill is rejected in the House of Commons, 55; attitude of the Fenians in America, 55, 56; causes that promoted the Home Rule policy in Great Britain, 59, 60; results of the General Election of 1892, 61; the Home Rule Bill of 1893, 62; its characteristics and vices, 62-64; it is a much more objectionable measure than that of 1886, and why, 65; strong opposition to it in the country, 68; the in-and-out plan given up, 69; the Bill passes the House of Commons by a small majority through the expedient of 'closure by compartments' 69; it is rejected in the House of Lords by an overwhelming majority, 70; Home Rule is scattered to the winds at the General Election of 1895, ibid.; it is not a prominent question at that of 1900, ibid.; the subject cannot be dismissed, 71; different forms of Home Rule, 71-73; separation a better policy than Home Rule, 73; 'Home Rule all round,' 73, 74; conclusive objections to this scheme, 74-77; the Union must be maintained, and Home Rule rejected by the nation, 78; the rule of the Imperial Parliament has had some bad effects in Irish affairs, and why, 79, 80; proposal that the Imperial Parliament should occasionally sit in Dublin, and the advantages of this, 81; royalty should sometimes visit Ireland, 82; necessity, in order to guard against Home Rule, and for other reasons, to reduce the over-representation of Ireland in the House of Commons, 82, 83 I