Sir Henry Parkes' Book.

Manawatu Herald, 24 November 1892, Page 2

Sir Henry Parkes' Book.

#- The Times publishes a highly eulogistic article on Sir Henry Parkes, whose book, it states, is a most significant contribution to the current history of the Empire. Sir Henry, it adds, was always a great colonial statesman, because like the late Sir John McDonald, of Canada, and Mr Cecil Rhodes, of the Cape, he recognised the necessity of being an Imperial statesman as well. This he had shown throughout his career, and his opposition to the leg«l eight hours shows he had the courage of his opinion. In his book, Sir Henry Parkes describes Sir George Dibbs as a kindly man personally, but reckless and woithless as a politician, Mr Reid, he says, is as fluent as a waterspout after a downfall of rain. He attacks Sir Samuel Griffith and Sir Thomas Mcll wraith over the Kanaka question, and balieves that '

Federation will come from the people, who will erect a Fedeial Congress to take the matter out of the hands of faltering politicians. The Standard thinks Sir H. Parkes' book disappointing, and says that readers on this side of the world would have been more grateful for glimpses of the society now fast receding, and of people he, better than anybody, could have sketched, rather than warmed up accounts of election contests, and similar ephemeral literature. The Pall Mall Gazette, referring to Sir Henry Parkes' book, characterises the writer's self-praise as ridiculous. I — —