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Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 By: Evelyn Baring Cromer (1841-1917) |
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ESSAYS 1908 1913
BY THE EARL OF CROMER
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1913
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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
"THE EDINBURGH REVIEW"
I THE GOVERNMENT OF SUBJECT RACES[1] "The Edinburgh Review," January 1908
The "courtly Claudian," as Mr. Hodgkin, in his admirable and instructive
work, calls the poet of the Roman decadence, concluded some lines which
have often been quoted as applicable to the British Empire, with the
dogmatic assertion that no limit could be assigned to the duration of
Roman sway. Nec terminus unquam Romanae ditionis erit. At the time
this hazardous prophecy was made, the huge overgrown Roman Empire was
tottering to its fall. Does a similar fate await the British Empire? Are
we so far self deceived, and are we so incapable of peering into the
future as to be unable to see that many of the steps which now appear
calculated to enhance and to stereotype Anglo Saxon domination, are but
the precursors of a period of national decay and senility? A thorough examination of this vital question would necessarily involve
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