private persons,
who have generously placed their experience at my disposal; while in
England I owe particular thanks to the Committee of which I had the
honour to be a member, which sat during the summer of this year under
the chairmanship of Mr. Basil Williams, and which published the series
of essays called "Home Rule Problems."

E.C.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] The two latter works were written by Mr. Lecky in his Nationalist
youth the first and greater work after he had become a Unionist. They
form a connected whole, however, and are not inconsistent with one
another.

[2] See "Democracy and Liberty."

[3] "Did the people of Ireland understand that the destruction of the
Union, so lightly advocated by Lord Haldane, must result in the
cessation of those largely eleemosynary benefits to which the progress
of Ireland is due, her 'dissatisfaction' would be unmistakably directed
towards her false advisers?"--Letter to the _Belfast Telegraph_, October
7, 1911, criticizing Lord Haldane's preface to "Home Rule Problems."

ERRATA

Since this book went to press the Treasury has issued a revised version
of Return No. 220, 1911 [Revenue and Expenditure (England, Scotland, and
Ireland)], cancelling the Return issued in July, and correcting an error
made in it. It now appears that the "true" Excise revenue attributable
to Ireland from _spirits_ in 1910-11 (with deductions made by the
Treasury from the sum actually collected in Ireland) should be
L3,575,000, instead of L3,734,000, and that the total "true" Irish
revenue in that year was, therefore, L11,506,500, instead of
L11,665,500. In other words, Irish revenue for 1910-11 was
over-estimated in the Return now cancelled by L159,000.

The error does not affect the Author's argument as expounded in Chapters
XII. and XIII.; but it necessitates the correction of a number of
figures given by him, especially in Chapter XII., the principal change
being that the deficit in Irish revenue, as calculated on the mean of
the two years 1909-10 and 1910-11, should actually be L1,392,000,
instead of L1,312,500.

The full list of corrections is as follows:

Page 259, line 9, _for_ "L1,312,500," _read_ "L1,392,000."

Page 260, table, third column, line 6, _for_ "L10,032,000," _read_
"L9,952 500"; last line, _for_ "L1,312,500," _read_ "L1,392,000."

Page 261, table, last column, last line but one, _for_ "L321,000,"
_read_ "L162,000"; last line (total), _for_ "L329,780,970," _read_