A  few  days  after  these  suggestions  were  made  (April  26),  Sir
Arthur  (then  Mr.)  Otway  informed  me  that  "  he  was  to  state


I70        SIXTY  YEARS  OF  AN  AGiTATOMtS  UFE.
that  Lord  Clarendon,  who  folly  shared  my  views  as  Id  Iht
interest  and  importance  of  such  information,  Ind
suggestions  with  much  pleasure,  and  that  it  wat  hia
intention  to  instruct  her  Majesty's  Secretaries  of
furnish  reports  on  this  subject,  which  Lord  Clareadoo
eventually  to  present  to  Parliament  in  a  collective
he  hoped  might  meet  the  objects  indicated  in  my  leCt<
the  first  volume  of  these  *'  Reports  upon  the  Condition  ef  At
Working  Classes  Abroad  "  appeared,  they  received  froa  At
New  York  Tribune  the  name  of  the  **  People's  Blue  Book.*
given,  I  believe,  by  Mr.  G.  W.  Smalley.  The  voli
found  to  be  of  unexpected  interest,  and  abounding  in
information.  Some  Secretaries  of  Embassy  excelled  in
ness,  variety,  and  relevance.  As  each  volume  appeared,  I
a  letter  in  The  Tunes  describing  it.  On  April  13, 1870,  and  ea
September  26,  1871,  leaders  in  The  Times  were  written,  iDo-
trating  the  value  of  the  reports,  concurring  also  in  my  reyn*
scntations  of  their  usefulness.  Lord  Clarendon  was  pleased  BS
expre:>5  the  satisfaction  with  which  he  read  my  first  letter  10  A
Times,    iiis  death  unfortunately  occurred  soon  after.
In  Lord  Clarendon's  instruction  to  the  Secretaries  of  Lm^
tion,  I  ob-ervcJ  that  he  had  changed  my  phr;
power  of    money'*   into   "the  purchase  power  oJF
"  Purchasing  power  **  was  a  phrase  new  to  the  Foreign
nor  was  1  aware  that  it  had  been  used  in  this
before  I  employed  it.     It  seemed  a  fair  form  of  the
The  term  altcrwardscame  into  general  use,  and  isquite
now.
