102 TlMEHRI. 
the Commandant at Port Royal. On his homeward 
voyage from Cuba, he again landed at Jamaica, and 
then was the guest at Cherry Garden of Mr MARESCAUX 
the local manager of the Colonial Bank. Haunted 
throughout his trip by the Irish Question, our Tourist 
indulges in a soliloquy upon Irish affairs, whilst on 
board the Royal Mail Steamer in Kingston Har- 
bour. Mr. Gladstone is to Mr. Froude, as King 
Charles's head was to Mr. Dick. The exuberant 
imagination of the one cannot tolerate the exuberant 
verbosity of the other. At last Mr. FROUDE was taken in 
hand by the then Colonial Secretary of Jamaica, Mr. NOEL 
WALKER, who was formerly Assistant Government 
Secretary of British Guiana. Mr. WALKER, now Colonial 
Secretary of Ceylon, was one of the few persons Mr. 
FROUDE came across who had a good word to say for 
the Black People. With his twenty-five years' experience 
of them, Mr. Walker's testimony must have some 
weight as against the hostile criticisms of Mr. Froude'S 
nameless informants, even though our Tourist, from 
general conversation gathered that the sanguine views of 
the Colonial Secretary were not widely shared, (p. 213). 
It does not appear from his book, that when, on his tour, 
Mr. FROUDE visited a single Sugar Estate. He had a 
soul above such things. In Jamaica, the opportunity for 
inspecting plantations was given him, but, says he, " I 
" declined to be taken over sugar mills, or to be shown 
" the latest improvements. I was too ignorant to under- 
'" stand in what the improvements consisted, and could 
" take them upon trust. The public bakery was more 
" interesting ". It is only from the author's supercilious 
reference to the " latest improvements ", that his readers 
