Mr. Froude's Negrophobia. hi 
the Harbour Master as Reverend: whilst he beheld 
the Governor's barge flying two flags, when The 
Reverend's bore but one. The true genius knows what 
is what by inspiration. No enquiry was needed. Mr. 
FROUDE took in the true state of things at a glance. So 
he writes down in his book " Mr. S landed in an 
" official boat, with two flags, to distinguish it from a 
" missionary's boat, which had only one" ! (p. 53) While 
Mr. FROUDE was inventing his fa6ts, he might have given 
a less puerile reason than he has offered for a Governor's 
barge bearing two flags. He might, too, have des- 
cribed the Harbour Master as a clergyman, or a minister, 
instead of as a Missionary, had it not been that, Grenada 
being in his eyes an embryo Hayti, he could not 
then have made the point that he was at the time, 
indeed, in partibus. No other modus operandi than 
that of inventing his facts, was open to a Tourist who, in 
a few weeks, was by " drives about the town and 
neighbourhood," to see the human inhabitants, and 
" learn what they were doing, how they were living, and 
what they were thinking about" (p. 73). 
Readers of his book cannot fail to observe that Mr. 
FROUDE is a superior person. Indeed, he is a most 
superior person. The Captain of the Royal Mail Steamer 
in which our Tourist travelled from Barbados to Jamaica 
had but one eye, but even that single eye " was quick to 
" see if there was any personal merit in a man, and if 
" you deserved his respect you would have it" (p. 79). 
But, superior persons have a way of lumping together, 
without any distinction, all people who happen notto move 
in their own charmed circle. So it is with our Tourist. 
Consorting with the Government House set wherever he 
