THE CONTEMPORARY VOLUME LIII. JANUARY-JUNE 1888 ISBISTER AND COMPANY LIMITED 56 LUDGATE HILL LONDON 1888 CONTENTS OF VOLUME LIII. JANUARY, 1888. An Australian Example. By Sir C. Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G. Mr. Norman Lockyer's Meteorite Theory. By Samuel Laing The Workless, the Thriftless, and the Worthless.-I. By the Author of The Lord was not in the Earthquake." By Frances Power Cobbe . Freedom of Bequest. By I. S. Leadam The Age of the Pentateuch.-I. By the Dean of Peterborough Islam and Christianity in India. FEBRUARY, 1888. The Homeric Here. By the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P. The Age of the Pentateuch.-II. By the Dean of Peterborough Nationality. By J. Westlake, Q.C., LL.D. Irish Land and British Legislators. By William E. Bear. The Scottish Church Question. By Walter C. Smith, D.D. The Negro Question in the United States. By George W. Cable 443 A Living Story-Teller: Mr. Wilkie Collins. By Harry Quilter. The Irish Landlord's Appeal for Compensation. By Michael Davitt. The Occupation of Land. By Leonard Courtney, M.P. Francis Parkman. By F. H. Underwood, LL.D. Mr. Davitt's Treatment of Irish Statistics. By George Wyndham Technical Education in Board Schools. By Rosamond Davenport-Hill The Position of Women in Ancient Rome. By Principal Donaldson, LL.D. JUNE, 1888. Theological Romances. By Andrew Lang Street Children. By the Rev. Benjamin Waugh Recent Critics of Darwinism. By George J. Romanes, F.R.S. The Invasion of Pauper Foreigners. By Stephen N. Fox. Matthew Arnold. By H. D. Traill, D.C.L. The Rest of Immortals. By Michael Field AN AUSTRALIAN EXAMPLE. as WHEN Rawdon Crawley takes down his little boy to the old family seat, where he is regarded as a rather discreditable poor relation, his heart warms at the idea of being once more at home. A colonist commonly returns to England in the same sentimental mood, and finds it as little understood or reciprocated. The respectable citizen who has had the enterprise and courage to stay at home, secretly regards his neighbour who has wandered to the ends of the earth as a man who has somehow lost caste. For three generations the Indian army, whose colonels and generals became plain Mr. Smith or Mr. MacPherson when they passed the Cape of Good Hope, was a focus of discontent and Radicalism from this provocation; and I heard an old moustache from Calcutta once insist that the contempt which Englishmen still feel at bottom for Americans. was simply a reminiscence of the fact that they had once been colonists. When England sends out an expedition in scarlet tunics or blue jackets, with gay banners and loud music, the heart of the nation goes out along with it, like a mother watching her children, but the silent expeditions in broadcloth and fustian destined to conquer new regions for civilization and commerce, and to drain away the impatient discontent which would make England a fen instead of a garden-who watches them when they set out, or welcomes them when they return? I assisted a few years ago in the Mansion House at a spectacle which made a permanent lodgment in my memory. Lord Mayor McArthur got together at a banquet the most notable statesmen and soldiers of the Colonial Empire. It was as impressive an assembly as I ever witnessed. There sat at his board the founders, the Ministers, and the Governors or ex-Governors and ex-Ministers of thirty colonies, mingled with the lords of immense |