His duties are similar to those of the French prefects, although the theory of home-rule and self-government is carried into each county and each municipality and parish, where every magistrate is responsible to a council elected by the people from among their own number.

He kept straight all through the home-rule troubles, and he chipped in a lot for the Jubilee fund, and they made him Lord Vatsmore.

Sovereignty and independence, however, are not, as we have seen, essential to full nationhood, provided the nation possesses a certain amount of "home-rule" and regards the government under which it lives as a true expression of its genius and will.

The King summons a conference to discuss the Home-Rule problem.

A competent observer has noted that such terms as "meeting," "mass-meeting," "self-government," and "home-rule," had no equivalent in the Spanish language.

Such a situation actually occurs in both Ulster and Home-Rule Ireland.

Mr. Redmond made no attempt to prove this absurd thesis, but when he demanded that martial law should be withdrawn and the interned rebels let loose in a Home-ruled Irelandwhile the embers of the rebellion were still dangerously smoulderinghe asked too much even of that amicable and trustful beast, the British Lion.

To all suggestions, however, of local home-rule and conciliation of particularist societies in the empire, the Committee was deaf.

The matter of most interest in modern American legislation for municipal government is probably the home-rule principle.

Just finished my article on "Antediluvian Archæology in its relation to Genesis and the Iliad," and now all that remains to do is to carry the rest of my books down to the new library, make catalogue, consider subjects for five more speeches, write thirty-six letters and postcards, and polish off the ten last clauses of the Home-Rule Bill.