Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       THE ROMANCE OF A PRO-CONSUL

       I PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR

       II HOME IS THE WARRIOR

       III YOUTH THE BIOGRAPHER

       IV SAXON AND CELT

       V SOUTHWARD HO!

       VI MAN AND NATURE ABORIGINAL

       VII PLANTING THE BRITON

       VIII PICTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE

       IX OVER-LORD OF OVER-SEAS

       X 'TWIXT NIGHT AND MORN

       XI THE THRILL OF GOVERNING

       XII IN THE QUEEN'S NAME

       XIII OCEANA AND THE PROPHETESS

       XIV A SAVIOUR OF INDIA

       XV AYE DREAMING AND DOING

       XVI THE FAR-FLUNG BATTLE-LINE

       XVII FOR ENGLAND'S SAKE

       XVIII A FATHER OF FEDERATION

       XIX WAITING TO GO

      I, PERSONAL AND PARTICULAR

      II. HOME IS THE WARRIOR

      The return to England, 1894, with incidents of the Queen, the Earl of Rosebery, and James Anthony Froude; a memory of Lord Robert Cecil, and some notes on London.

      III. YOUTH THE BIOGRAPHER

      Or how the child was father to the man. Olive Schreiner's greeting; an orangestall eloquent; a flight from school; a surpassing encounter at South Kensington; and a glimpse of Archbishop Whately.

      IV. SAXON AND CELT

      A young soldier in the Old Ireland of the Thirties; varying scenes of Irish life and character; and stories of Dean Swift, Daniel O'Connell, and Sir Hussey Vivian.

      V. SOUTHWARD HO!

      The call to the New World; musings of the voyage and the sea; and, by contrast, the London perils of Thomas Carlyle and Babbage, Sir Charles Lyell's spear-head being also mentioned.

      VI. MAN AND NATURE ABORIGINAL

      A battle with the blacks, wherein, unhappily, their leader fell, the white chief being seriously wounded; and later, a valiant march across the blistered Australian country.

      VII. PLANTING THE BRITON

      First principles of nation making; a harvest in South Australia; the witchcraft of Turner's wig; the vanity of riches; keeping the Anglo-Saxon ring; strange human documents; and a reference to Sir John Franklin.

      VIII. PICTURES IN BLACK AND WHITE

      Food, as man's leading motive; curing a witch doctor; a problem of Kaffir women's ornaments; elevating the native; a Tasmanian study; a new Sabine story; the Aborigine and his surroundings; lastly, McFarland's elopement.

      IX. OVER-LORD OF OVER-SEAS

      Lamech's slogan and the task of stilling it in New Zealand; with, arising therefrom, martial chronicles of Hongi, Heke, and Kawiti, Maori chiefs, and of the taking of the 'Bat's Nest' stronghold.

      X. 'TWIXT NIGHT AND MORN

      An Easter scene and earlier; on tramp with Selwyn; the kidnapping of Rauparaha; Rangihaeta cajoled into road making; how the Maoris rubbed noses; and the boycott as peace-maker.

      XI. THE THRILL OF GOVERNING

      Knight and esquires; a secret of empire; the tragedy of the naval lieutenant; Patoune's fallen-out tooth; to the hills for New Zealand's constitution; playing 'cock-fight'; and repulsing the Ngatipoa.

      XII. IN THE QUEEN'S NAME

      Showing the management of another danger spot of the realm, to which picture there come in, details of the winning of the African natives to the Queen, a comedy of witchcraft and widows, and a German Legion difficulty.

      XIII. OCEANA AND A PROPHETESS

       From the plight of Sir John Herschel in London, to the stir made in South

       Africa by Nongkause, a Kaffir girl turned Messiah; and between pages

       Sandilli, Moselekatsi, Bishop Colenso, and Bishop Wilberforce.

      XIV. A SAVIOUR OF INDIA

      The activities of a hunter, prelude to a narrative of how a British military force, under orders for one theatre of war, was boldly diverted to another; incidentally the bearding of Moshesh; and a queer Pax Britannica.

      XV. AYE DREAMING AND DOING

      The effort to federate South Africa; the gathering in of the Pacific, involving visits to New Caledonia and Norfolk Island; the Irish girl as empire builder; a meeting with Macaulay; and Prince Alfred at the Cape.

      XVI THE FAR-FLUNG BATTLE-LINE

      Two Kings of Maoriland, Te-Whero-Whero and Tawhiao; Sir John Gorst and the newspaper battle, 'Lonely Sparrow on the House-Top'