One evening last summer I met Lady Salisbury,* and told her my opinion of Lord Clare.

She dissented with characteristic emphasis--and she is not a lady who can easily be moved from her judgments.

Still, if she finds time to read the book I should like to hear that she can recognise the merits as well as the demerits of a statesman who, in the former at least, so nearly resembled her husband." -- * The wife of the late Prime Minister.
-- In another letter he says: "The meaning of the book as a whole is to show to what comes of forcing uncongenial institutions on a country to which they are unsuited.
If we had governed Ireland as we govern India, there would have been no confiscation, no persecution of religion, and consequently none of the reasons for disloyalty.

Having chosen to set Parliament and an Established Church, and to the lands of the old owners, we left nothing undone to spoil the chances of success with the experiment." Froude went to the United States with no very exalted opinion of the Irish; he returned with the lowest possible.

"Like all Irish patriots," including Grattan, Wolfe Tone "would have accepted greedily any tolerable appointment from the Government which he had been execrating." The subsequent history of Ireland has scarcely justified this sweeping invective.