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Evans, Rucker, Bryce, Lecky, G. Darwin, Frank- 

 land and Maunde Thompson." It will be seen 

 that history as well as science was represented. 

 Ladies never seem to have been guests at these 

 breakfast-parties. Quotation of the last and only 

 other entry for this day is too tempting to be 

 resisted : " In the evening to hear Ibsen's Ghosts. 

 We thought it horrid." 



As Treasurer of the British Empire League it 

 was partly his official duty as well as his pleasure 

 to entertain the representatives of the Colonies 

 during their visit here for the Jubilee. He took 

 a party of them down to Lancashire, and records 

 that when getting near Liverpool the wife of one 

 of the Premiers asked him, " Now, Sir John, I am 

 afraid I am a little mixed in my Geography. Are 

 we at this moment in England, Scotland, or 

 Ireland ? " 



It is a mix-up which many a Briton visiting 

 the Colonies might match, with similar ignorance 

 of their conditions, though perhaps he would not 

 make such free confession of it. Some of the 

 Premiers could and did support this by the 

 stories which they had to tell. Notice the follow- 

 ing, as recorded on : " July 5. — Meeting at 

 Merchant Taylors' Hall to meet the Colonial 

 Premiers. The Duke of Devonshire, Seddon, 

 Braddon, Whiteway, and Reid spoke. I moved a 

 resolution. Whiteway mentioned that he found 

 that Newfoundland was popularly supposed to be 

 principally representative of Cods, Hogs, Logs, 

 Bogs, and Fogs. He and Braddon and Seddon 

 spoke strongly for a closer connection between the 

 Mother Country and the Colonies, Whiteway had 



