Excerpt from Life in Parliament: Being the Experience of a Member in the House of Commons From 1886 to 1892 Inclusive Having been myself one of them, I proceed to describe this life as I have known it from 1886 to 1892 inclusive. During that time I saw or heard nearly everything within the four walls of the House itself, and much of wh at occurred in its precincts. My account will be prepared from journals and records kept by me from day to day during all these years. It will not be a Parliamentary his tory of the years, nor a categorical statement of actions and. Occurrences. Practically every Member belongs, indeed must belong, to a Party. I am attached to the Conservative Party, and my story must be told from a Conservative point of view. It amounts, therefore, only to evidence on one out of two or more sides. But as evidence, with this limitation, it may afford materials for history hereafter. No man, who has been in the thick of a strife between two contending hosts, can properly narrate the whole of any battle. Let him explain what occurred in the host of which he was a unit, the occurrences as he knew them in his own camp, and the proceedings of the adverse host as he saw them from the opposite side. Such a narration will be good so far as it goes. Similarly, let some one of the adversaries describe affairs in his camp, and on his line of action. Then 'let the historian take the various narratives together, and describe the whole impartially. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.