Speeches on Indian Affairs

The work of those two great men had been to propel the tide of public sentiment and in a sense they lived. upon the confidence the approval and the applause of the people. [...] On gra return of the Prince and Princess of Wales after their tour through the British self-governing Colonies Lord Corley described in the course tf a speech at Forfar the gorgeous spetacle of their home-coming and quoted the sublime lines of Milton depicting the pageantry of the streets and ways of ancient Rome. [...] the good despot without the good despot's grasp'and energy." He has not minced words in showing up the shallowness of the theory of the man on the spot and the expert. [...] His prose does not possess the dramatic vividness the turgid prophesying and the vibrating notes of that great prose-po.et Thomas Carlyle and the music and the rhythm of the prose of Matthew Arnold. [...] He MI6 this laid the foundation well and truly for a loyal contented and prosperous India ; and it is left to the British public and the British Parliament to sanction his scheme„anal to the people of India in the future to prove themselves worthy of the confidence and trust reposed in them before they will be duly entitled to ask for more of the same kind.