In the Anglo-French Review for March Lord Charnwood has a
second article " Concerning Abraham Lincoln." In reply to an American critic who thought that he had underestimated the hostility of British public opinion to the cause of the North, Lord Charnwood quotes the late Lord Cromer, who had been with Grant before Richmond, as saying that " the North were mistaken in thinking that the feelings during the war of London and its Press (I may add, the feelings too of the majority in Liverpool, with which town also Americans were acquainted) were the feelings of England as a whole." Lord Charnwood draws an apt parallel with the present situation, when " the British Empire, in the very act of making further strides in the path of peace, of freedom, and of justice, is to some extent exposed in America to misunderstanding, and exposed to calumny not less unworthy than that which associated the North with Fugitive Slave Laws and the traffic in hippopotamus-hide whips." Baron Emile d'Erlanger writes on some English war- poets and gives a number of free translations into French, including Mr. Kipling's Gethsemane " and two poems by Mr. Robert Graves. President Deschanel's eloquent oration of May 24th, 1918, on the Franco-British Alliance is reprinted, with an appreciative article on the President by M. Albert Dauzat.
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