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Punch Volume 74-75


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...above the mere Whig and Tory view of the matter. In his mind the dereliction has a deeper root. It all comes of the detestable habit of "employing persons of whose antecedents and connections the Secretary of State has no other knowledge than is afforded by a certificate of proficiency and fitness granted them by the Civil Service Commissioners, after an open competitive examination." _ Inference: Keep the Foreign Office doors at least shut against writers, and competition-wallahs, and all that low class of people who trust for advancement to their work, their wits, and a Civil Service certificate. Where all the bags are full of cats, none but persons of known antecedents and connections should be admitted to handle the strings. Competition and examination may supplv the sort of article wanted for the lower Offices; but leave the Olympian Office which has to deal with the Eleusinian mvsteries of Diplomacy, to look for its Clerks to the "good old rule--the simple plan--of nomination and family favour. Very plausibly pleaded, my Lord Hammond. Competitive examination has been hard ridden. All that doctrinairism could do to discredit its pet panacea, it has done. There is only one thing worse; and that is the old principle of patronage, in whose favour its supporters are cleverly using this sale to the Globe of the Salisbury-Schouvaloff agreement. (Common.)--After much desultory talk, in which the employment of writers in the Foreign Office at tenpcnce an hour was mixed up with the Indian Press Act, Cretan disturbances, Home-Harbour I-oans, Irish Arms-searches, and the appointments to the Halifax Bench, the well thrashed Cattle Bill discussion was resumed, and all the old reasons for and against it reiterated with that stolid...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230104515
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 498
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230104518
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 880 gr


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