The book, of course, never pretended to be anything but a slight sketch. An attempt has been made—while errors have been corrected and the subject matter has been brought up to date—to maintain such character as it ever possessed.

I shall be well rewarded for any trouble I have taken if it is recognized by my friends in Newfoundland that the reproduction of this little book places on record an admiration for, and an interest in, our oldest colony which has endured for considerably more than twenty-one years.

BIRKENHEAD.

House of Lords,
May 1920.

CONTENTS[ToC]

CHAP. PAGE
I.[The Land and its People]7
II.[The Age of Discovery]22
III.[Early History]45
IV.[Early History (continued)]64
V.[The Struggle for Existence]81
VI.[The English Colonial System and its Results]95
VII.[Self-Government]114
VIII.[Modern Newfoundland]126
IX.[The Reid Contract—and After]143
X.[The French Shore Question]171
Maps—
[Newfoundland and Labrador]6
[Newfoundland in Relation to Western Europe]33
[Index]188