New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-19

praises Of their town. took the distinguishes
visitor upon a professional drive and where III.
reporters manifested warm interest in his a..
fairs To the Duchess of Argyll he wrote
The next day I spent in bed with a vsry -
nervous headache. fact which was announced -
the public In the morning by a sensational ue-s
graDh in all the papers 10 the following, ectt ''a-
His Royal Nibs down with = cOiici Doctor sent
for, etc. etc" -|
In fact all the time I was at Chicago the pana-,
leading article in the leading journal being headed
"GOOdby, Old Dufferin-" Another paper devoted
two Of its columns to a dissertation 81 an ir+s-
view between one Of its reporters and myself In
gown sucking sugar and water through IN; yf-,72
while communicated to my Observation-Disclosures
always addressed as odd fellow'-vaFioEs state
secrets and minute detail Of my private affairs:
though it is needless % the author OF the mar
rative had never been within hundred yards
Lord Dufferin's six years in Canada were
succeeded by short but brilliant term as An
bassadOr in St Petersburg where he and his
wife were. it was said. "the most charming and
popular dipIOTnatists that had ever been seem
there Thence he went to ConstantinopIe. where
in the trOubIous period when the Egyptian
question was most menacinF he managed the
Sultan and his advisers with remarkable tact
Judgment and adrOitness.
The larger part of Sir AIfret's second volume
is filed with the record Of DUherin's eminent
success as VicerOy in India His enlightened
and vigorous administration satisfied the rulers
of the native states, as We'll the home gov
eminent and there was sincere mourning when
in his fourth year Of service he resigned and
returned to England. 1t was near the end OF
his viceroyalty by the way, that he wrote this
sentence, which is even more interesting row
than it was then: L am one OF those who 90
not believe that Russia VIII actually invade
India during the present century, unless, indeed,
she should produce a hero with the genius and
ambition OF Napoleon or Alexander. and even
then think she would come to grief"
One outcome Of the Viceroy's service was the
uarquisate which Queen Victoria gave to him.
and it is interesting to read that he was very
anxious to take the title of Quebec. remember
ing that he had saved the picturesque historic
walls OF the town when the municipality was
about to pull them down. The Queen, however
felt that he ought TO take his title from some
town in India, and the only possible one seemed
to be Ava II was, therefore. as the Marquis
OF Dufferin and Ava that he became one OF the
most popular ambassadors ever welcomed In
Rome and in Paris. The present British Am
bassador in Washington. Sir Mortimer Durand
who knew him we'll, says IN an admlraols
chapter of recoIlectiOns:
man or aIalrS anu OF INC "oti't
than a profound thinker. Nevertheless. ne mad
great abilities; he thought much, and, above all ne
had character in an unusual degree 1 may %
BIASED in my Judgment, for had strong personal
affection for him, but / believe him 10 nave OeeA
man of very rare qualities. whose great repulss-
ton in the public service was by no means N e&5
cess of his desert. Certainly that IS the view heiu
Nv foreign CiDIomatiSJS from Frenchmen 10 FER
slams have often heard them speak or nm ana
always in the same terms, as the modeI OF an E
Iisb Gentleman who upheld his cOuntryS Interests
with courage and skill and was a the same C--A9
the kindest and most Loyal or colleagues
Let US not fail to set down also the testimony
of an old friend-an Englishwoman as nrlllaht
in her way as Dufferin himself-that ne was one
Of the only two men she had ever known VINO
were thoroughly immersed in the world anu
quite unspOilt by it,