[9] See the interesting picture in the staircase of the National Portrait Gallery, London. [10] Morley's _Life of Gladstone_, vol. i. p. 571. [11] _James Mill: a Biography_, by Alexander Bain, LL.D., p. 215. [12] _Representative Government_, by J. S. Mill, pp. 175-180. [13] _Dissertations and Discussions_, by J. S. Mill, vol. ii. p. 417. [14] _Autobiography_, p. 241. [15] The census of 1911 shows that the excess of women over men is in the proportion of 1068 women to 1000 men, and that this proportion has changed but little during the last hundred and ten years. [16] _Record of Women's Suffrage_, by Helen Blackburn, pp. 53, 54, 55. [17] _Record of Women's Suffrage_, p. 190, by Helen Blackburn. [18] A few isolated associations of Liberal women had existed before this. There was one at Bristol started in 1881; but nothing was done on an extended scale till 1886. [19] An important new departure in journalism was taken by _The Standard_ in October 1911. This paper now devotes more than a page daily to a full statement both of events and arguments bearing on all sides of the suffrage and other women's questions. [20] See _Outlines of the Women's Franchise Movement in New Zealand_, by W. Sydney Smith. Whitecombe & Tombs, Ltd., Christchurch, N.Z. 1905. [21] See Report by Sir Charles Lucas, who visited New Zealand on behalf of the Colonial Office in 1907. [22] See _Colonial Statesmen and Votes for Women_, published by The Freedom League, p. 6. [23] See letter from Miss Alice Stone Blackwell in _Manchester Guardian_, July 12, 1911. [24] See _Anti-Suffrage Review_, No. 33, p. 167. [25] The exact numbers in England and Wales (autumn 1911) are fifteen on Town Councils (two being Mayors) and four on County Councils. [26] As an example I quote the canvass of women municipal electors in Reading made respectively by the suffragists in 1909 and anti-suffragists in 1911. When the suffragists canvassed, the results were:-- Did not answer In Favour Against and Neutral 1047 60 467 When the anti-suffragists canvassed in 1910 the results were:-- Did not answer In Favour Against and Neutral 166 1133 401 With such disparity as this between the two returns no conclusion can possibly be drawn from either without further investigation of the methods pursued. [27] See Statistical Abstract from the United Kingdom. [28] Quoted in Lord Morley's _Studies in Literature_, pp. 133, 134. The reference there given for the extract is _Order and Progress_, by Frederic Harrison, pp. 149-154. [29] _Early History of Charles James Fox_, by the Rt. Hon. Sir G. O. Trevelyan, p. 449. [30] _Anti-Suffrage Review_, December 1910. [31] See p. 89. [32] See _The Suffragette_, by Miss E. Sylvia Pankhurst (Gay and Hancock, 1911). [33] See _Garibaldi and the Making of Italy_, by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 3.