But it is in Imperial politics that the bouleversement has been most complete.

When critics now find fault with the structure of the Empire they complain not that there is too much Downing Street in it, but that the residual power of Downing Street-is not visible to the naked eye.

To us Irish the blindness of England to the meaning of her own colonial work is a maddening miracle.

A wit of the time met Goldsmith at dinner.

The novelist was a little more disconcerting than usual, a result, let us charitably hope, of the excellence of the claret.