...uff (later Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff), the author writes that he came unexpectedly upon a breakfast (June, 1887), the guests being Atkinson, the New England Free Trader, Colonel Hay, and Frederic Harrison , all of whom were well brought out by our host and talked admirably. I quote some extracts from the talk:-- Mr. Atkinson said that quite the best after-dinner speech he had ever heard was fro...