Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of
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Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913
Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of
Colonies; Colonization; History; Literature
Almanza, song on defeat at, 456
America and Free Trade, 134, 138
America, war with, in 1812, unpopularity of, 457
Amherst, Lord, occupies Burma, 288
Anarchy, 20
Ancient Art and Ritual, 361-371
Andrade, Colonel Freire d', 380, 383, 384
Anglo-French Agreement of 1904, 162, 167
Anglo-Saxon individualism, 15
Anthology, translations from, 72
Anthropology, bases of, 364
Antigonus Gonatas, 351
Anti-Slavery Society, 373
Apollo Belvedere, 370
Aratus of Sicyon, 358
Army reform, 107-126
Arndt, national poetry, 443
Arthur, Sir George, 123
Asoka, 355
Assouan dam, 296
Athenaeus, on dancing, 370
Attwood, Mr. Charles, 196
Aulard, M., on Taine, 430
_Aurengzebe_, 73
Australia, field of anthropology, 365
Bacchylides, 65
Bacon, 31
Barère, 299
Barth, Dr., on Hinduism, 88
Beaconsfield, Lord, and Egypt, 203
Beaconsfield, Lord, and Empress of India, 422
Bembo, Cardinal, 56
Benbow, Admiral, death of, 451
Beowulf, on the sea, 450
Berthier, Marshal, 279
Bismarck, Prince, on statesmanship, 251
_Bleak House_, 119
Blennerhassett, Lady, 427-438
Blücher, Marshal, hallucinations of, 285
Blunt, Mr. Wilfrid, 81
Bodley, Mr., on French administration, 436
Boell, M. Paul, 418
Bolingbroke, 182
Bossuet, definition of heretic, 307
Boufflers, Madame de, 231
Brahmanism, Sir A. Lyall on, 89
Bright, John, and Disraeli, 183
British officials and parliamentary institutions, 27
Browning, Mrs., 60
Brunnow, Baron, and the Balkan States, 275
Bryce, Mr., on the writing of history, 214
Budget system, 44
Buffon, on style, 184
Bugeaud, Marshal, 257
Bureaucracy, Continental, 29
Burgoyne, Sir John, 281
Burke, on fiscal symmetry, 39
Burma, 287-297
Butcher, Dr. S, on Eastern politics, 26
Cabarrus, La (Madame Tallien), 298-306
Cambronne, 298
Campbell, Lord, Disraeli on, 186
Canada and Free Trade, 131
Capitulations in Egypt, 156-174
Capo d'Istria, Count, 271
Cardwell, Lord, 109, 116, 117, 119
Carlyle, 219
"Carmagnole," the, 442
Cavagnari, Major, murder of, 100
Cavour, 269, 272
Centralisation, 34
Chamberlain, Mr. Joseph, 244, 248
China, 141-155
Chinese labour, 147
Chinese War of 1860, 120
Chitnavis, Sir Gangadhar, 334, 335
Chremonides, 357, 358
Christianity, effect on Roman Empire, 7-19, 52, 53
Claudian on duration of Roman Empire, 1
Clinton, Mr. Fynes, 216
Cobden, Mr., 127
Cobdenism, abuse of, 328
Coleridge, on poetry, 59
Coleridge, on prose, 55
Collier, Jeremy, on Cranmer's death, 56
Commerce and Imperialism, 11
Confucianism, 143, 153
Constantinople, foundation of, 7
Constitutions in the East, 141
Cornwallis, Lord, 36
_Corvée_ in Egypt, 396
Cory, Mr. William, 69
Cowley's translation of Claudian, 67
Creighton, 222
Crewe, Marquis of, 330
Crimean War and India, 410
Crowe, Sir Eyre, 375
Curiales, Fiscal Oppression of, 21
Curtius Rufinus, 356
Curtius, Professor, on the Greek language, 226
Curzon, Lord, on army affairs, 243
Cyprus, occupation of, 276, 413
Danton, 302, 303
Deffand, Madame du, 212
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