New-York tribune., 1886-01-31
ENGLAND AND HER COLONIES
MR.. FROUDE'S NEW BOOK.

scribncr's Sons
When Mr. Froude set out on the journey arouhd
he world of which he has given an account Ia th'S
.iurlorlv interesting volume. lie bad more
serious object than the qualification OF tourist
cpriositg. For many years he has been an enthu'-
;ostic believer in the possible federation OF Lneaho
aud her mighty ofshOots in a commonwealth 10
which he applies the name of Harrington i'e'l
g @Oceana" aud he has been vehement palt'c'p"'oi
in the debates upon colonial pOiley "hIcn h''o
lately filed so much space in EnGIlsh pon'''"i
literature His purpose in this VOYAGE was " So
the questions stil further among lhe coion''''
themselves to get the views OF their 'e'u'hS nv"
and watch the drift of their popular oP'"oN'
sides irouiriug into the characteristics OF tno
noople and the wants of the communities io
- massage for Australia by the long sea-rou'e'
torcbed at the Cape of Good Hope, spent lew
,,ontbs at Melbourne and Sydney, visited Auck-
land and returned home by the way OF San ! l"n
cisco. His investigations therefore were coni'noG
to certain parts of Australia and NcW-Heal'nu' ill"
rerhans we may say the Cape Colony, Tor he h;i
been there before ana few hours at cape lo"p on
this occasion suficed 10 refresh his already aple
knowledge of South african affairs. But II he saw
few places he saw many important men, ana 'cSteu
the British colonial temper in those paris Oh 'n0
Soptb Pacific dependencies where If is most pro
nounced aud most significant. lie did not leki'0.
the wonders Of nature and the mover aSPoct'o Vi
domestic life which came under HIS ooscI '.i0'
and he takes his readers on many gfahu oNouiS'o''
whose incidents and scenery arouse III MIN
the narrative and descriptive powers ol MS younger
years His personal experiences are toiu with u0hc
crous fulness and his OF nOns on great variety Vi
subiects literature religion, democracy mahneiS
CARLYLE and Mr. Gladstone are frequently set IoiVn
With charasteIistic vehemence not TO say oogm"-
tism The political problem, however Oh inc l'"oi"
ton of "Greater Britain" is the man SUBJECT Vi
which he never long loses sight .
A fey wears ago the colonial policy avowed IN pr-
vate by responsible English statesmen anu h"h-
confessed in public was to cast OIL the coohies "'
soon as they were able and Wiling 10 Sill. iOi
themselves 1t was assumed that they were Oh ho
nse TO the mother country except as customers anu
that they would buy her wares Just as iIe'iS
ofte, they became independent as before. - III Is
noe said an eminent Colonial Office Secretary 10
my self when | once demonstrated, 10 SPEAK "oou'
II anv longer The thing is done. The great COW
ni,s are zone. 1t is but a question of year or
txo.,D As an illustration of English lndlherenco
to the colonies Mr.. Froude adds the following e'05
which he received from Sir Arthur Helps
Covarnment had gone out Lord PalmerstOn was
forming a new Ministry, and IN preliminary co"n
cil was arranging the composition OF IL. he h"u
6lle1 nm the other places. He was at n loss lor d
C,olonial Secretary This name and that was sus-
rested and thrown aside. At last lie said SUI
nose must take the thing myself Come up S'aiis
with me- Helps when the council is over "o VIII
look at the maps and yOu shall SNOW me "nei0
thess places arc" In severe review Ol the pol!oS
of the English Government in South Aulca, l,
Cronde saws that the authorities at the Co'ohla'
oas oro g so little acuuainted with the character
ond distribution of the Cape population that Loru
Cordveu who had been himself Colonial Minister
heiieved as late as 1873 that all the Dutch ID
goutb Africa had migrated to the free STATES anu
that the colony was entirely English lie 'olu lne
so himself and was taken entirely by surprise "Heh
Uniformed him that the Dutch were SUN 'uo ma
;i4 and 4 very large majority. III the colony tseii.
Nor were they only the majority, DuI tney "'
doing all the work which is really 7auaoie'
I,oi. +bora has heen q change in the tone oil
rr,1ish poIticians different estimate OF the I'M
nortonca of the colonies has become popular ana
1orious schemes for a closer union nave Deeh pro-
nosel. not always with the best ehect upon INC
,eoper of the coloniots themselves. MI flouuo
values these possessions not only ior s"nt'''o"'"'
and economical reasons and as essential u 'l'
oommandiur position of Great Britain among ma
tons but also TO put it bluntly, as breeding places
for manly English stock. This was a 1aNorue
iaa. of Car(vle's The modern theories OF progress
occordinp to the philosopher, would turn the IAN
old England into a grimy workshop, croWueu VIII
slaves: he looked forward to an ocean cuiP'lo
where her millions would be spread over thelf oIoao
inheritance leading Wholesome ana happy lives vi
their own fields. " \ sound nation says MI
Froude. is nation that is composed ol so"nO
bnnan beings. healthy in body, strong OF limb
trne in word and dced-braye, sober, temperate
cbaste. to whom morals are OF more Importance
+h,, vve,Itb or knowlelge-where duty is first ant
+be riphts of man are secOnd-where, III snort, mel
grow ND and live and work, having IN them Wha
our ancestors caliei the Gear OF God IL IS 10 lor
character OF this kind that human beings are sen
into tins world. and those nations VINO succeeu II
doing it are those who have made thclr marx IL
history They are Natures real ireemeh anu ei''
to,nsn,s existence on this planet It's real lnteIes
and value" such men cannot be raised III over
crowded communities, given uD to factories an'
trade where the very air is poisoned, ana th'
no,nlo never see woods and green leliS eNcep
bv peerinC through the pallngs oil rch man 5 PARK
So England must have colonies as nurseries OF he
own children. 1t is not clear, however that th'
colonies are producing just the SORT ol men Mr
Froude wishes to see. He observes Win regret III
old-world f0ndness for crowding INTO inc to"uS IL
naatiu itself in the new and toe faults Of the old
world civilization are renewed III these young com
muuities with the addition of many faings OF thel
oyp rhe colonists arc energetic industrious, AM
thrifty but they aim at little except what none.
will buy; and 70 make money and buy ehJ'ymeh
with it is the beal and the cnd-all OF their exist
ence.n They have churches, schools, and colleges
and they talk much OF education, but relsioh Ia
no hold upon Them and they have no severe inle
lectual interests. Mr.. froude makes no formal CON
nar;son between the people of Australia ana thos
of New Zealand but we infer that the latte
nieased him the less Of the two lie heard man!
complaipts OF the rising generation III all the colo
nies Young men who nave inherited money an
leisure without the knowledge or the character
make a rational use of either. Mr. Froude had ia
company of some of these young colonists on III
VOYAGE from Auckland to san Francisco
Those that we had on board, and there were
good many of them, were OF the moheyod kih'
Hyho lad leisure and means and the selI,suihcicnc
,vhicL goes alorg with 1t. OF these / liked non