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IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

BY THE Rt. Hon.

THE MARQUIS OF LORNE,

P.C., K.T., G.C.M.G., LATE GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"A fresh impulse has been given to the movement for Imperial Federation by the readiness of the great colonies to undertake their share of Imperial duties in the Soudan and Central Asia. At this moment Lord Lorne intervenes especially opportunely with his contribution of a volume on the subject to Mr. Sydney Buxton's Imperial Parliament Series.'... A period at which nothing positive can be effected is an invaluable interval for cultivating a proper mood as to the manner in which the problem will hereafter have to be settled. . . . Lord Lorne's interesting essay."--Times, May 18, 1885.

"The picture which Coleridge painted of a hundred millions of freemen, speaking the language of Shakespeare and of Milton, and living under the laws of Alfred, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Pillar of Hercules to the Cape of Storms, from the Arctic Seas to the islands of the Antipodes, has been recognized as an 'august conception.' And it is this conception which the little work recently published by the Marquis of Lorne has reduced to a tangible form. On such a theme few men have a better right to speak than the ex-Viceroy of Canada."-Standard, May 19, 1885.

"It was a happy idea of Mr. Sydney Buxton to devise this neat and useful series of political handbooks on questions of the hour. Judging from the first, they will soon become a necessity of healthy and intelligent political life to our newly-emancipated democracy. Lord Lorne's treatise on Imperial Federation is sensible and to the point. The little book is full of topics for thought. It deals with one of the most important questions of future politics, and we cordially welcome its appearance at the head of a series that we hope will be a widely circulated political library for the people."-Pall Mall Gazette, May 19, 1885. Renders the small volume now before us one of the most weighty and most useful contributions to the discussion of this question which has yet been made." Canadian Gazette, May 21.

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"A compact and yet comprehensive volume by the Marquis of Lorne on Imperial Federation appropriately introduces what is announced as 'The Imperial Parliament Series of Popular Political Handbooks.' The opening topicthat of Imperial Federation-is one upon which Lord Lorne, as the late GovernorGeneral of Canada, is especially qualified to pronounce an opinion. . . . The volume may be commended as containing a suggestive and thoughtful contribution upon a subject of growing importance."-Leeds Mercury, May 20, 1885. "Full of facts, moderate in suggestion, enthusiastic in its main purpose, free from fanaticism, yet earnest, this volume of the late Governor-General of Canada is the best plea for the unity of the Empire actually realized that has resulted from the formation of the Federation League." -Western Morning News, May 15

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