New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-29
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
,,,,r,,,pr or ENCIJSH COLONIES

THE FUTURE VI ENuLioIi .xyD
skGGHEpR1E WASHINGTON THE EXPANDEEE OF
ENGLAND Bv EDWARD A. FREEMAN. |'o""
syc. M. i1a Macmillan 4 Co.
Tho hook here presented with double title COM
.,;ses substantially two lectures In the second, de-
;ror.d At the University of Oxford Professor Free
,,a, ,,rcnuousIy wonders whether, in the. course
AZ his Office as professor of modern history III 'ne
,Irixersity he will reach the times OF "eo'so
Washington Certainly not, unless nc iearn' W
.,en with much brsker pace than ne ms yet ca
hibhed For great many years ne mas ooeu ~
;, IN tho iore-courts Of modern history Win the
comnosure of student who has all eternity oc'o'0
him. Tho patient scholarship when spehos yo",'
IN the investigation of single problem OF i s'ns'e
important period is worthy OF all respect anu
nohodv beerudgcs Professor Freeman the honors
he has so laboriously earned by his irultiui TO-
searches in particular fields; but it must be con-
5000 that his prox.y is sometimes sore trial.
rn;s mt content with stating his conclusions once
., twice Int he must repeat them with wearisome
rot;o, and prolixity He must not only develop
III. ideas but he must talk about them. lie has no
orsc If the value of time. He letters ahout his SUD-
;ect long after the reader has grasped his meaning
and become impatient to get on to something else'
In nra, oelivery n good deal of repetition is allow
oble and the fault complain OF was propaoy
las onnarent 10 the hearers of these two lectures
,han il is 20 the readers. But they ought to have
hcsn condensed severely before they were COM
nltted TO print.
,bom The first points ont the difference between
al. italian colonies of ancient Greece, which were
ALWAYS from their very beginning independently
cities connected with the parent cities only by ties
ot race and sentiment, and the colonies of Britain
which were subject communities incapaoie from
their origin and theory of allegiance OF FORMING
afree and independent state except through revoiu-
tom But England experienced, IN the case Oh
America the truth which Spain also was forced 10
own. that IN the necessity of the case DAY nius'
,o,,o vsen even the siackest fora, of dependence
"a, no horne no longer Then the colonies are
forced TO win their independence and opportunity
for eyelop,nent 10y the sword Inc conclusion
from th:s would To be that Canada. AUSTRALIA
Now Zealand. South Africa, perhaps India and
why not Ireland ARE TO repeat the story OF the
United States; but Professor Freeman makes no
such rash prediction. In the second lecture Oh
which Washington is only the text not at all the
snh;ect he argues that England herself may be
exrauded by the very cutting short OF her domin-
ion y. the Thirteen American Colonies became IN
HIGHER and truer sense colonies of the English iolk
when they ceased to be dependencies OF the Britsn
Crown. 40 annex. to coerce, to hold IN Dohuase'
may in some unhappy state OF things oe soie'hh
and fearful duty 1t can never be IL atter LOT IeJoc
ing or for Boosting Bnt there matter OF rejoicing
so far as Loasting is lawful there Is matter 1or
boasting whenever the English folk wins new
land NOT merely to rule over but to dwell in. new
land in which the speech the laws. the traditions
OF England may be az much at home as they are
here IN this our England IN Britain" Inc point Oh
these remarks is sharpened by an appendix CON
s.,inc of the substance of an article on Imperial
In
Tn this paper Professor Freeman declares that
there is no example in history of federation
established on the plan of the proposed union OIL
existipa British colonies. Federations have always
been created by independent States surrendering
certain of their rights to a central authority OF
their own setting up: and IN showing now they
nevertheless retain partial control over the geh
era affairs Mr. Freeman makes the odd statement
that in this country the States themselves IN
tboir Legislatures choose the Senators, by whom
the acts of the President are approx ed or an
nulled~ In the British federation scheme, now
ever the historical process Is reversed; supreme
Parliament is expected to abdicate Its authority
and reduce itself to the condition of a provincial
assembly while England, instead of remaining the
mistress of a great empire is to become only mem
ber of A partnership in which she may be decidedly
oyerpa,anced To this our author thinks that the
English people at home will never submit. lie
excuses some of the practical difficulties III the
working o. the federation plan, not the least OF
which is the disposition to be made OF India ana
he concludes with a repetition OF the idea contained
In tie lecture WASHINGTON that tue true eX-
ranson of England is not an expansion OF domln-
ion but of population. institutions. laws, manners
and spirit. The Greater Britain must DC one surely
which will take in the mghtiest Offset OF the
parent stock the United States I'VE are told
that If We will not have Imperial Federation we
must have either 'disintegratiOn or the con-
tinued subiccton of the still dependent colonies
IT is a question which as yet one cannot do more
than Whisper: but would dislntegratlOn be too
dearly bought if 1t carried with it the perfect indie
rendence OF the United States OF Australia, and
greater chance than we now have of Keeping the
lasting good will of the United States OF America =