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An efficient native insular police force was organized, and an admirable state of public order brought about. The health service was extended to the provinces, and health conditions were greatly improved throughout the islands. Baguio was made accessible and became both the summer capital and a health resort for the people of the islands.
English writers are often accused of treating subjects from an insular point of view, and certainly there may be good ground for such a charge. But they are not the only writers guilty of the practice. The purview of French authors is often quite as limited: they regard French opinion as the only good opinion, and judge the rest of the world by their own standard.
This gave the commissioners an opportunity to discuss their views on insular government with the leading public men of Spain, and they profited by these discussions till 1867, when they returned. The question of the abolition of slavery had not been brought to a decision.
It was proposed to confide the preparation of peace to the insular parliament, yet to be convened under the autonomous decrees of November, 1897, but without impairment in any wise of the constitutional powers of the Madrid Government, which to that end would grant an armistice, if solicited by the insurgents, for such time as the general in chief might see fit to fix.
The society was very simple compared with the complex condition of ours, and yet it had more striking contrasts, and was a singular mixture of downrightness and artificiality; plainness and rudeness of speech went with the utmost artificiality of dress and manner. It is curious to note the insular, not to say provincial, character of the people even three centuries ago.
Toward the end of October he obtained a leave of absence, in order to visit France and acquire the French language. His impressions of that country, as far as he went, from Calais to St. Omer, are given in lively enough style in a few letters; but they differ little from what might be expected from any very young man deeply tinged with insular prejudice.
Bart Kennedy, or the late Emil Reich. But there is a distinction to be made. Few even of these, with the admirable and indeed almost magical exception of Dr. Sarolea, saw Germany as she was; occupied mainly with Europe and only incidentally with England; indeed, in the first stages, not occupied with England at all. Even the Anti-Germans were too insular.
He sat, indeed, on the board of the struggling railway a gift of the French Government to a department which has never paid its way, has always been an open wound. But he never spoke there, and listened to the fierce speeches of the local members with his idle, easy smile. He seemed to stand aloof from his new neighbours and their insular interests.
"And carry thy rudeness abroad?" he retorted indignantly. "Perchance thou wouldst like to go to the Continent, and swagger through Europe clad in thy loud-patterned checks and thine insular self-sufficiency." I tried to move him out of the way by brute force, and we wrestled, and he threw me. I heard myself strike the floor with a thud.
The strong but overwrought Evangelist, Sapho which of course belongs with the chief novels from the Continental but not from the insular point of view and the books of Daudet's decadence, The Immortal, and the rest, cost him few friendships, but scarcely gained him many. For the man and his career are as unaffectedly charming as his style, and more of a piece than his elaborate works of fiction.
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