e, but Delhi made my soul burn within me, and I never
heard "God save the Queen" or saw the Union Jack flying in the heart of
India without feeling the tears in my eyes, which are not much used to
tears.' He becomes poetical for once; he applies the lines of 'that
feeble poem Maud' to the Englishmen who are lying beneath the Cashmire
Gate, and fancies that we could say of Hastings and Clive, and many
another old hero, that their hearts must 'start and tremble under our
feet, though they have lain for a century dead.' Then he turns to his
favourite 'Christmas Hymn,' and shows how, with certain easy
emendations, Milton's announcement of the universal peace, when the
'Kings sate still with awful eye,' might be applied to the _Pax
Britannica_ in India. He afterwards made various suggestions, and even
wrote a kind of tentative draft, from which he was pleased to find that
Lytton accepted some suggestions. A rather quaint suggestion of a
similar kind is discussed in a later letter. Why should not a 'moral
text-book' for Indian schools be issued in the Queen's name? It might
contain striking passages from the Bible, the Koran, and the Vedas about
the Divine Being; with parables and impressive precepts from various
sources; and would in time, he thinks, produce an enormous moral effect.
In regard to Lytton himself, he was never tired of expressing the
warmest approbation. He sympathises with him even painfully during the
anxious times which followed the murder of Cavagnari. He remarks that,
what with famine and currency questions and Afghan troubles, Lytton has
had as heavy a burthen to bear as Lord Canning during the mutiny. He has
borne it with extraordinary gallantry and cool judgment, and will have a
place beside Hastings and Wellesley and Dalhousie. He will come back
with a splendid reputation, both as a statesman and a man of genius, and
it will be in his power to occupy a unique position in the political
world.

Fitzjames's letters abound with such assurances, which were fully as
sincere as they were cordial. I must also say that he shows his
sincerity on occasions by frankly criticising some details of Lytton's
policy, and by discharging the still more painful duty of mentioning
unfavourable rumours as to his friend's conduct as Viceroy. The pain is
obviously great, and the exultation correspondingly marked, when
Lytton's frank reply convinces him that the rumours were merely the echo
of utterly groundless slander. I wi