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CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

BY

JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.

Essay 9: The Expansion of England

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1904

THE EXPANSION OF ENGLAND.

Politics and History[291]
In relation to the eighteenth century[294]
Mr. Green and his History of the English People[297]
The secession of the American colonies[300]
The mechanical and industrial development of England[301]
The Americans and Independence[303]
The moral of Mr. Seeley's book[305]
Organisation in time of war[306]
Sir Henry Parkes on Australia[307]
Mr. Archibald Forbes and the Australian colonies[313]
Proposals made by the Earl of Dunraven regarding the colonies[316]
The formation of an imperial Zollverein or Greater Customs Union[318]
Sir Thomas Farrer's Fair Trade v. Free Trade[318]
The colonies to be represented in the British Parliament[319]
Lord Grey[320]
Mr. W. E. Forster's address on our Colonial Empire[321]
The Newfoundland Fishery dispute[329]
The Germanic Confederation[331]
Conclusion[334]