Chapter II: Foreword: TO PART II vii

I. DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 1901 1

II. GEORGE WYNDHAM’S IRISH LAND BILL, 1902 32

III. CROMER BEGINS TO MAKE MISTAKES 76

IV. LITERATURE AND POLITICS 113

V. THE BEGINNING OF GREY’S BLUNDERS—AKABAH 133

VI. FRANCIS THOMPSON 168

VII. ASQUITH AT DOWNING STREET 199

VIII. KING EDWARD’S DEATH 286

IX. GEORGE V, KING 309

X. THE FRENCH INVADE MOROCCO 334

XI. GENERAL TROUBLE IN EASTERN EUROPE 376

XII. THE WAR WITH GERMANY DECLARED 416

APPENDICES

I. THE GRAND MUFTI OF EGYPT TO COUNT LEO TOLSTOI 437

II. THE AKABAH QUARREL 439

III. DHINGRA’S DYING SPEECH AND EXECUTION 443

IV. MR. BLUNT’S MEMORANDUM ON PRISON REFORM, ESPECIALLY AS 445
TO THE TREATMENT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS

V. THE ITALIAN MASSACRE OF ARAB PEASANTRY IN TRIPOLI 452

VI. SIR ROGER CASEMENT’S LETTERS TO MR. BLUNT 455

VII. MISS FRANCES JENNINGS TO MISS ELIZABETH LAWRENCE 458

VIII. CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS 460

INDEX 477