A GREAT PRO-CONSUL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 277, 22 November 1893, Page 2

A GREAT PRO-CONSUL.

' Under the heading •' A Great Pro-consul " | the "Review of Reviews" says: "The i Lit'o and Times of Sir George Grey " haa ! boen issued in London, and haa called forth i a tropical shower ot reviews, almost all of j them highly favourable, both to tho subject! I and the author of the biography. Sir I Georgo Grey's remoteness from London haa almost the elFect of remoteness in time on the imagination of London critics, and | when his figure is thus set in historical | perspective its jdreatnoss of ecalo becomes j apparent. All tho reviewers agree that Sir (Goo. Grey, in the natural order of deserved \ promotion, should have gone from the : Cane to Canada and from Canada to India Irk Governor-General. He would thus have | : taken his place in tho gallery of great I pro-consuls which stretches from Welles!ey i and Cornwailis to Laurence and Dutferin ; j | and Sir George Grey's would not have been '[ , fchfl least in that procession of great names. •His socond appointment to New Zealand I altered the complexion of Sir George Grey's ! |life. The reviews all admit, too, tnat, Sir jGeorge Grey, at tho time of the Mutiny, ; helped to save India, by tho swift resolve and the all-compelling energy with which, on his own responsibility, he diverted the j troops on their road to China, and de- ; Bpsitehed them, with every man and rifle ifeoba collected at the Cape, to Calcutta. iA weaker man would have shrunk from ithui; bold act, and so added months to ; the horror and bloodshed oi the Mutiny. ! "The two volumes ofMr JJeee, says Mr Grant j Alien in t.he ' Daily News' are more than I a history of .a man, they arc in great part | the hi-':-- v .-•! :.t\ •■vjpire? 3ir George i fire-;1 -•' ' ■ >•••■• i>'.i«tuud | coir... ~-c."