AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
Bin,—Mr. Newbold's letter, appearing as it does precisely throe days after Mr. Darwin Kingsley's notable and inspiring speech in favour of an " Anglo-Saxon Federation," comes as a ray of light across the thick darkness that has been threaten- ing to wrap the whole world in the gloom of hopeless despair. Such a " Federation," which Mr. Kingsley (speaking in New York on Wednesday, December 22nd) urged to be the one solu- tion to the great world problems of to-day and to-morrow, would, apart from the great spiritual bond, put an immediate end to the destructive competition between ourselves and our brethren of the U.S.A., and form an conomic combination for the benefit of all the world. A thousand enemies of this great ideal will raise their voices in the endeavour to prevent its realizsation, but there are tens and hundreds of thousands of " willing ears" (to quote your correspondent) of those whose one desire will be to see that this great ideal shall become a
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