112 TlMEHRI. 
went, he takes no cognizance of the intermediate classes 
between the dominant party and the black peasant pro- 
prietors. There are, nevertheless, many persons who have 
not the entree to Government House, and whom Mr. 
FROUDE would not meet among the select of society, 
who might yet be thought worthy of being per- 
mitted to live. Some of these are whites, some 
are persons of mixed race, others are Africans 
pure and simple. It does not, however, suit Mr. 
FROUDE'S book to make any distinctions. With him, 
the question of allowing the Taxpayers to elect some of 
the Members of Council is a question between the white 
planters ' and their emancipated slaves ' (p. 351). Thus 
it comes about that, save some disparaging allusions 
(pp. 88, 97, 155, 211), Mr. Froude does not seem to 
recognise that the people of mixed race form an impor. 
tant factor in the life of the West Indian Colonies. He 
learns at Jamaica, apparently for the first time, that some 
of these people are somebodies. They had even been 
seen at Government House. " There were mulat- 
toes," he says, " in the island, of wealth and consequence, 
" and at Government House there are no distinctions ; 
" but the English residents of pure colonial blood would 
" not associate with them, social exclusiveness increasing 
" with political equality. The blacks disliked the mulat- 
" toes ; the mulattoes despised the blacks, and would not 
" intermarry with them. The impression was that the 
" mulatto would die out, that the tendency of the whites 
" and blacks was to a constantly sharpening separation, 
" and that if things went on as they were going for 
" another generation, it was easy to be seen which 
" of the two colours would then be in the ascendant. 
