[Home Rule, 1912.] Printed item: ‘A “Modern Eye”-Opener. 60 Points against Home Rule (A reply to the Daily News “50 Points in Favour of Home Rule”) by T. S. Frank Battersby, M.A., K.C. With a preface by The Right Hon. Sir Edward H. Carson, M.P.'

From the Sylvia and Robert Lynd papers. Scarce: three copies on JISC and in NLI. The Lynd copies of the first and third editions of the work to which this is a response are offered separately. 76pp (vi + 66 + [4]), 12mo. Stapled. In printed card wraps with vertical red, white and blue bands on the cover. Grubby and worn, with slightly-rusted staples, and short closed tear to fore-edge of front cover. Includes four-page index. In a two-page preface Carson finds the pamphlet successful in its two objects: ‘By historical precedent it illustrates the futility of separate legislatures in the United Kingdom and shows, not by idle prophesy but by logical analogy, that the forces which drove the subordinate Irish Parliament of 1782 to demand independence must inevitably work out a similar result now.’ Carson’s view is that ‘politically, financially and socially the Home Rule Bill if passed into law will be a disaster to Ireland, can produce no benefits, and must in my opinion lead to additional taxation while Great Britain will have created a state doomed to poverty and discontent with its subordinate position, and bound, like Frankenstein’s monster, to become a danger to the very designer of its existence’. The points, each covering one page or more, are on topics ranging from ‘The Famine, 1846-7’ and ‘Agrarian Crime’ to ‘The Clan na Gael and Molly Maguires’ and ‘Lecky and Admiral Mahan, U.S.A.’