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much more like that of Spain, than is the climate of the 
British West Indies like that of the United Kingdom, 
and that Cuba is for the Spaniards, their Canada, Aus- 
tralasia, South Africa, and West Indies combined (pp. 
292, 332, 363). Of the 56 days left to Mr. Froude for 
doing our part of the West Indies, he devoted a fort- 
night to Barbados (p. 109), the same time to Dominica 
(p. 172), and, apparently a week to Trinidad and a fort- 
night to Jamaica. Voyaging among the Islands gave 
him about a week on board Royal Mail Steamers, as to 
the officers of which he says, " never on any line in the 
" world have I met with officers so courteous and culti- 
" vated." He seems to have spent about 12 hours at 
St. Lucia : just long enough for him to fall into the error 
of stating that St. Lucia is under the jurisdiction of 
Barbados (p. 136). At Grenada he was ashore for 
dinner, but, alas, his dinner seems to have disagreed 
with him, for, of this now flourishing little colony, which 
the Black Man, by industry, is turning into a garden, 
he preserves such painful reminiscences, that throughout 
his pages he holds up Grenada, not as an example, but 
as a warning. The late Sir GEORGE STRAHAN, when 
Governor of the Windward Islands, spoke of Grenada 
as a little Paradise, where everybody had plenty and 
everybody was happy ; but then, with Sir GEORGE Str ahan 
the Black Man was somebody, whereas with Mr. FROUDE 
the Black Man is nobody in the political system. Mr. 
FROUDE did not visit England's great West Indian 
Colony, British Guiana, on the Mainland of South 
America, although the Magnificent Province is within 
36 hours steam of either Trinidad or Barbados. 
In order to appreciate at their proper value the opinions 
