Produced by James Tenison
THE ROMANCE OF A PRO-CONSUL
BEING THE PERSONAL LIFE AND MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, K.C.B.
BY JAMES MILNE
AUTHOR OF "THE EPISTLES OF ATKINS" "MY SUMMER IN LONDON," ETC.
THOMAS NELSON & SONS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, DUBLIN AND NEW YORK
A WORD TO THE READER
When Sir George Grey died, twelve years ago, he left a message as well as a name to the English-speaking people. It was that their future rested in the Federal Idea of communion and government. He saw, vision-like, the form of this new age arise, because changed needs called it. As Pro- Consul he laboured for it unceasingly in our over-sea Commonwealths, and South Africa has most lately given answer. Now, at a historic turning in British Institutions, we hear of "Federal Home-Rule," and that may be a signpost to far travel along the road which Sir George Grey "blazed." Certainly it sends us to the spacious life and high thoughts of the "Father of Federation," whom Time in its just goodness will also call the Walter Raleigh of the Victorians. Hence this people's edition of a book wherein, "he, being dead, yet speaketh."
JAMES MILNE.
LONDON, March 1911.