Lord Elgin

Excerpt

The late Sir John Bourinot had completed and revised the following
pages some months before his lamented death.  The book represents more
satisfactorily, perhaps, than anything else that he has written the
author’s breadth of political vision and his concrete mastery of
historical fact.  The life of Lord Elgin required to be written by one
possessed of more than ordinary insight into the interesting aspects
of constitutional law.  That it has been singularly well presented must
be the conclusion of all who may read this present narrative.