Yet, at the risk of incurring the censure of that old saying about ill birds and the fouling of nests, there is one respect in which Engli papers are not quite fair either to themselves or their readers. With the outbreak of war they regained a power which too mang of them had for some years deliberately thrown away, namely, of leading rather than following public opinion; and that power the formation of a coalition Cabinet redoubled. Horsa, like most little country places, tends to 893
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