fist June.
THE announcement that Lord Curzon is about to return to li tical life will be bailed with veneral satisfaction. Though many none will deny his ability.
disagree with his poly lo filled the important posts he has been called with di and his retirement from politics would be a serious loss to the party to which he belongs. Lord Curzon first entered political life as assistant private secretary to Lord Saligbury, who had " high opinion of his ability. In 1886 he entered Parliament as member for the Southport Division of. Lancashire, nnd in 1891 he lecama Under Secretary of State for India; in 1896 he was appointed to the Under Secretaryship in the Foreign Office; and when, in 1898, Lord Elgin retired, the Hon. George Curzon, as he then was known, was They raised to the Peerage of Ireland and appointed Viceroy of India, Though a young man for so responsible a post,"he was by no means unacquainted with India, having" travelled extensively in that countury and in the East, At the time he was appointed he was, in foot, about to publish a book on Indis, but as Lord Salisbury disapproved of the publication of @ work on the country he was about to govern it was, to quote Lord Curzon's own
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