The Indian Review May 1885

The luxury of a Cleopatra and the presence of Roman governors failed to redeem its history from that of a dependency and though the beauty the wit and the charms of the Egyptian Queen enslaved first Caesar then Anthony the masters of the world they failed to raise the fallen kingdom from itg state of vassalage. [...] and judicial reforms—abolition of slavery ministerial responsibility the development of agriculture and public works and the completion of the Suez Canal ; and lastly the elevation of the Viceroy to the rank of Khedive and direct succession to the throne with the right of making war—in short complete political autonomy. [...] With regard to slavery I am reminded* that the suppression of the slave-trade of the south was due to the initiative of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales who when passing through Egypt communicated to the Khedive his idea of entrusting Sir S. Baker with the suppresion of the slave trade on the White Nile and with the establisment of order in the Soudan. [...] But the introduction of independent tribunals for the natives the lidiffusion of education the gradual development of self-government within the village communities for local matters as with the panchayets" or village councils of northern India and perhaps the institution of a council of notables to assist in arranging and modifying the decrees of the Government might do something to ameliorat [...] In the Preface we read : " The myth of Dionysus is the glorification of enthusiasm which the poet believes to be the sap of the Tree of Life the spring and origin of all good fruit." There is an echo of Shelley''s Laon and ()lima in the young ethusiasm of Coresus : "I seek To ransom not enslave Callirrhoe Calling all men to the Deliverer."202 The Indian Review.