PREFACE

I have to thank the editors of The Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, The Nineteenth Century and After, and The Spectator for allowing the republication of these essays, all of which appeared originally in their respective columns.

No important alterations or additions have been made, but I should like to observe, as regards the first essay of the series—on "The Government of Subject Races"—that, although only six years have elapsed since it was written, events in India have moved rapidly during that short period. I adhere to the opinions expressed in that essay so far as they go, but it will be obvious to any one who has paid attention to Indian affairs that, if the subject had to be treated now, many very important issues, to which I have not alluded, would have to be imported into the discussion.

CROMER.

September 30, 1913.

CONTENTS

PAGE
"THE EDINBURGH REVIEW"
I.The Government of Subject Races[3]
II.Translation and Paraphrase[54]
"THE QUARTERLY REVIEW"
III.Sir Alfred Lyall[77]
"THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER"
IV.Army Reform[107]
V.The International Aspects of Free Trade[127]
VI.China[141]
VII.The Capitulations in Egypt[156]
"THE SPECTATOR"
VIII.Disraeli[177]
IX.Russian Romance[204]
X.The Writing of History[214]
XI.The Greek Anthology[226]
XII.Lord Milner and Party[237]
XIII.The French in Algeria[250]
XIV.The Ottoman Empire[264]
XV.Wellingtoniana[277]
XVI.Burma[287]
XVII.A Pseudo-Hero of the Revolution[298]
XVIII.The Future of the Classics[307]
XIX.An Indian Idealist[317]
XX.The Fiscal Question in India[227]
XXI.Rome and Municipal Government[340]
XXII.A Royal Philosopher[351]
XXIII.Ancient Art and Ritual[361]
XXIV.Portuguese Slavery[372]
XXV.England and Islam[407]
XXVI.Some Indian Problems[416]
XXVII.The Napoleon of Taine[427]
XXVIII.Songs, Patriotic and National[439]
XXIX.Songs, Naval and Military[449]
Index[459]