Excerpt from A Life of the Earl of Mayo, Fourth Viceroy of India, Vol. 2 But while I feel that in the following chapter the Earl of Mayo stands out more prominently from among those who shared his labours than he himself would have deemed right, his method of working renders the injustice less than it might be in some other cases. He had a remarkable faculty for listen ing to everything that could be said on a subject, and then shaping from many diverse counsels a course that was distinctively his own. N 0 one could tempt him into the error of being led to state his own con clusions first, and then having to ask his interlocutors' opinion about them. He had the art of making every one feel that he followed with a personal interest their exposition of a case; but at the same time that his interest was that of a judge, not of a partisan. In India the Provincial Administrations and Heads of Departments represent the initiative, the Secretariats the critical element in the Government. A Head of a Department is almost ex aficz'o a man who has something to propose. And his plans of improve1869 [oed mayo's method OF work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.