PREFACE

I owe much also, which I cannot now acknowledge,
 to discussions and conversations with those
responsible at home and abroad for the actual
conduct of the relations of the Imperial and the
Dominion Governments. There are, however, two
friends whose retirement from active service in the
Dominions renders appropriate a public admission
of indebtedness, and it gives me great pleasure
to thank Sir Thomas Gibson-Carmichael, Bart.,
K.C.M.G., Governor of Victoria from 1908-11, and
now Governor of Madras, and the Honourable John
Greeley Jenkins, Premier of South Australia from
1901-5, and Agent-General in London from 1905-8,
for all that they have taught me of the real working
of constitutional government in the states of the
Commonwealth.
For advice, criticism, and reading of proofs, I
am deeply indebted to my cousin, Mr. James Drysdale,
 and to my brothers, W. J. Keith, I.C.S,,
Secretary to the Government of Burma, and R. C.
Steuart Keith, I.C.S., Registrar of the Chief Court
of that province, while Mr. R. W. Chapman, of the
Clarendon Press, has again laid me under great
obligation by his constant interest in the progress
nf this book.
It should be added that the book is wholly unofficial,
 and that no use has been made of any
material which is not already public property.

A. BERRIEDALE KEITH.