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CONTENTS
The Crown lauds and squatters, 93
National education, 94
The Rev. J. Dalton on the Educational expenditure in Great Britain and the Colonies, 94
"Quill-driving" versus a handicraft, 95
General Gordon's wise forecast, 95
"Protection" in Victoria, Mr. Richard Heales and Sir Graham Berry, 96
"The logic of events," 96
Effect of "free soup-kitchen," in Collingwood, 96
"What shall we do with our toys? " 97
Change in the Fiscal Policy of Victoria, 98
A Free-trade Cabinet introduces Protectionist tariff, 98
Inter-Colonial restrictive duties, 98
Can we have Imperial Free Trade with Protection against the world? 100
A British Zollverein, 100
Conversation between an Australian Protectionist and a great English Free-Trader, 100
"Titles for Colonists," 101
Mr. Higinbotham's view, 102
"Impossible to discriminate their relative baseness," 102
Messrs. Higinbotham and Francis decline a title, 102
The rest have accepted K.C.M.G. when offered, 102
Sir Robert Stout's remarkable Article, 103
Sir George Grey's views, 104
Opposed to Lord Carnarvon and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, 105, 106
A merely "local" title illegal, 105
Should the Colonial or British Cabinet "advise" the Queen as to the distribution of honours in a self-governing Colony? 105
Sir R. Stout sums up controversy, 106
Obstruction in Colonial Parliaments, 108
Mr. Alfred Deakin's proposed remedy, 108
Mr. Service's opinion of Sir Chas. Warren and the Police in Tralfalgar Square Riots, and murder of Sergeant Brett, 109
Why Colonial public-men can be outspoken, 110
Mr. Service on Armaments, 110
On the Conscription, 111
Australian Democratic Press, Age and Leader, 112
Australia and America, 112
Australian democracy must be met as a fact, 114

V.
Australia and Irish Home Rule, 115-134
A "solid" Australia, 115
Mr. Parnell and Mr. Rhodes, 115, 116
Mr. Parnell an "Imperial Federationist," 116-119
Australian Irishmen may be Home-rulers, 119
No section analogous to the Irish American Dynamite Party, 119
Sir John O'Shanassy on the brothers Redmond, 119, 12
Effect of Mr. Gladstone's "conversion" on the Australian public mind, 120
Mr. Topp's Essay on English Institutions and the Irish Race, 121