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CONTENTS
xxiii
English Roman Catholics, 123
Cardinal Manning, 123
Celt and Teuton, 124
Mr. Davitt on race, 124
His "Mission of the Celts," 125
Bismarck on race, 126
Melbourne Review, 126
The Highlander and Lowlander in Scotland, 129
Bismarck on the German and French character; the former applicable to the English and Lowland Scotch, 120
The relations of England and Ireland in a sentence, 131
What is the Irish Problem? 132

VI.
The Irish in Australia, 135-156
Irish population in Australia, 135
"An Australian Example," 135
"The Irish in Australia," 136
Contrasted with "Victorian Year-Book," 136
Has the British majority played a minor rôle? 136
Victorian autonomy and Mr. Balfour, 137
Political capacity of the Irish in Australia, 138
The Anglo-Irish and the Irish Celts, 138
Marcus Clarke's nationality, 139
Wentworth, "the Australian Patriot," 140, 141
Sir Wm. Foster Stawell, 141
Judge Molesworth, 142
Wm. Edward Hearn. 142
George Higinbotham, 142
Their share in building up Victoria, 143
Early English Emigrants, 144
Sir C. Gavan Duffy on the two Irish Sections, 145
The purely Celtic Claims, 145, 146
"Why don't you stand ?" 146
I am an Englishman! 146
Disadvantages of belonging to the "Imperial and consolidating race," 146
The Celt a powerful factor in colonial affairs, 147
"The Roman Catholic vote," 147
The English clergyman as a "wire-puller," 148
"A political pessimist," 149
"Poll early, and Poll often," 149
Acts of filial piety, 150
Irish domestic servants, 150
An Englishman's anti-patriotic bias, 150
What do the Irish contribute to Australian or Imperial objects? 151
Australia's contribution to Irish famine fund, 151
Criminal Statistics, 152
Autonomy of Victoria not applicable to Ireland, 152
Major-General Sir Andrew Clarke, 152
Letter to John Bright, 154
Toleration the mark of the Victorian Era, 155
"The Weary Titan," 156

VII.
The State Schoolmaster, 157-187
Education in the colonies, 157
"Free, secular, and compulsory," 157
Not necessarily purely secular, 157
Why was religion banished from Victorian schools? 158
Voluntary and Board schools in England, 159