Footnotes:
Many of those who were interested in Arctic research and the then unknown fate of Sir John Franklin, will remember the meetings at Lady Franklin’s house at Kensington Gore, and how greatly Mr. Grinnell’s exertions and enterprise were appreciated.
Mr. Laurence Oliphant, whom I had known in other parts of the world, was then living with his community upon the Southern shores of Lake Erie.
The last time that I saw him was at a Levée, held in St. James’s extreme Palace, in the year 1880, under circumstances which were in contrast with his daily life of labour at Brocton. I understood that he had come over to England to arrange some business matters connected with the affairs of his society.
America is the home of many groups of people endeavouring to carry out their various schemes of communistic life. I visited several of their settlements and found that their methods of management were very different. The prosperity and the harmony of the men and women, evidently depended upon their faith in their own strange forms of religion. It was also observable that, in all cases, the leaders were men of dogmatic character.
The question respecting the proportion of foreigners in the armies of the North came under consideration.
It had been supposed that a large number of the troops consisted of men of foreign nationalities, but an investigation that had been made into the subject has proved that the alien strength of the army had been the subject of much exaggeration.