April 6.
Robert Home, son of the parish ramister of Slamannan, in Stirling-shire, finds himself the central figure in one of the great political romances—or tragedies—of the time. Still on the sunny side of fifty, and with a Parliamentary experience that can be counted in months where his predecessors had behind them as many years, he stands at the right hand of the Prime Minister, one of the statesmen who will leave an impress upon the evolution of the British Empire.
The keynote of Sir Robert Home's ca is achievement. In the case of many men the growth
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