The United States and Canada. By G. M. Wrong. (New
York and Cincinnati : Abingdon Press. 1 dol. 25 cents.)—Professor Wrong, of Toronto, was invited to lecture at Wesleyan University under a trust providing lectures " for the promotion of a better understanding of national problems." The trustees chose him for his soholarship and also for " the fine spirit in which he has ever exemplified his conviction that the English-speaking peoples, especially on this continent, should live together in friendship, and work together for the advancement in the world of liberty, self-government, and peace." Professor Wrong made it his object to explain to his American audience " some of the things in which the United States and Canada are alike and also dif- ferent." He emphasized the immense power of the English- speaking peoples, numbering already 170,000,000. He sketched the history of North America, to show how there came to be two English-speaking States instead of only one, and he con- trasted American and Canadian federalism, reminding his hearers that the constitutional forms followed in Canada must not be taken too literally, and that in adopting Parliamentary government Canada has chosen a system which differs com- pletely from that of the United States. He pointed out that, when the war came, while America hesitated, Canada " was clear in its resolve not to stand aloof." The war might not have killed German ambitions, but the two English-speaking peoples- " the strongest force ever known in human history "—had it in their power, if they remained united, to keep the peace of the world. Professor Wrong's able and vigorous little book deserves a wide circulation on both sides of the Atlantic.
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