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1 Cf. Wallace, W. S., The Memoirs of Sir George Foster (Toronto, 1933), pp. 154–61.Google Scholar
2 Cf. ibid., pp. 176-9; Macdonald, E. M., Recollections, pp. 273–92, 334–5.Google Scholar
3 Another Governor-General, Lord Byng, is the subject of a very interesting incident in Mr. Macdonald's Recollections. Lord Byng also had very foggy ideas as to the functions of the King's representative, and on one occasion granted an interview to a group of striking coal-miners in direct opposition to the advice of his Ministers. The saying of Sidney Smith that to convince a Russell one must trepan, not argue, would seem to apply with equal force to certain other eminent families.