11S 'Ifa *\ ineteentft Century (1615 - 1314}

how party politicians used the enquiry into the complicity of
Joseph Chamberlain in the Jameson Raid in order to discredit
one another; here liberalism, for the sake of its internal
quarrels, preserved the conservatives' chief asset.731 McCready,
similarly, demonstrates that during the tory ascendancy the
liberal party tried to follow suit by dropping home rule and
preaching empire.732 The oldfashioned radicalism, a central
component of mid-Victorian liberalism, receives oldfashioned
treatment from Maccoby.733

The newer radicals were, in the main, the ancestors of the
labour party. Harrison wishes to pinpoint the political posi-
tion of the working classes before the day of working-class
parties; the result is not very clear.734 Felling and Poirier be-
tween them consider the spring days of the party which was to
claim the right to speak for the workers.735 An evanescent
extra-parliamentary workers9 organization has also been dis-
cussed.736 One wonders if the history of the labour party needs
to lack excitement to quite the extent so far apparent. Still, the
various contributory streams of the movement have also been
investigated. The trade unions, on whose money the party was
in the end to grow, have been briefly dealt with by Felling;737

731 Jeffrey Butler, The Liberal Party and the Jameson Raid. O: Claren-
don: 1968. Pp. xii, 336. Rev: EHR 84, 872f.

7SS H. W. McCready, 'Home rule and the liberal party, 1899 -
1906', Irish Hist. Studies 13 (1962-3), 316-48.

733 S. Maccoby, English Radicalism, 1886- 1914. L: Allen & Unwin:
1953, Pp. 540. Rev: EHR 69, 4628". - Idem, English Radicalism -
the End? Ibid.: 1961. Pp. 640. These are the last volumes of an
enterprise started some time ago*

734 Royden Harrison, Before the Socialists. L: Routledge: 1965, Pp.
xiii, 369.

758 Henry Felling, The Origins of the Labour Party, 1880 - igoo. New
ed. O: Clarendon: 1965. Pp. ix, 256.-Philip P. Poirier, The
Advent of the Labour Party, 1900 — 1906. L: Allen & Unwin: 1958.
Pp. 288. Rev: EHR 74, 373f.

73* p^ y$. Bealey and Henry Felling, Labour and Politics, igoo -1906;
a history of Ike Labowr Representative Committee. L: Macmillan: 1958.
Pp. xi> 314. Rev: EHR 74, 373f.

717 Henry Felling, A History of British Trade Unionism* L: Macmillan:
1963. Pp, xi, 287. Rev: EHR 80, 637^