TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. Footnote anchors are denoted by [number], and the footnotes have been placed at the end of the book. Some minor changes to the text are noted at the end of the book. THE PAGEANT OF PARLIAMENT VOL. I +-----------------------------------+ | | | CONTEMPORARY | | | | PORTRAITS: | | | | | | Men of My Day in Public Life. By | | the Rt. Hon. Sir ALGERNON WEST, | | Author of “Recollections,” “One | | City and Many Men.” With many | | Illustrations. Demy 8vo, cloth. | | | | 18s. net. | | | | Sir Algernon West, at one time | | secretary to Mr. Gladstone when | | Prime Minister, and who has filled| | a number of important official | | positions, is well qualified by | | his personal experience and the | | number of his acquaintances in | | the upper regions of the official | | world to write this book, which | | includes reminiscences of Sir | | Louis Mallet, Lord Blachford, Lord| | Sandford, Sir E. May, Lord Welby, | | Matthew Arnold, Sir E. Bradford, | | and many others. Sir Algernon | | West, as his previous work shows, | | is a delightful raconteur, and | | the present is one of the most | | informing and charming he has | | written. | | | | T. FISHER UNWIN LTD. LONDON | | | +-----------------------------------+ [Illustration: SPEAKER’S CHAIR AND CLERKS’ TABLE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS. (From Sir Benjamin Stone’s pictures, British Museum.)] THE PAGEANT OF PARLIAMENT BY MICHAEL MacDONAGH AUTHOR OF “THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE” AND “THE REPORTERS’ GALLERY” VOL. I T. FISHER UNWIN LTD LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE _First published in 1921_