SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.] The Monroe Doctrine. By Sir F. Pollock, Bart. (Offices of the. Anglo-American League.)—This pamphlet contains the sub- stance of a lecture delivered before the London Chamber of Commerce under the auspices of the Anglo-American League. (The author explains that the League is not committed to the opinions expressed by him. Probably he represents them fairly enough.) It sets forth with a quite admirable clearness, and with a touch of humour that in such a subject is as desirable as it is difficult to give, the history and real meaning of the "doctrine." Sir F. Pollock has what we may perhaps call a postscript on the Spanish-American War. He reiterates the statement that there was an anti-American coalition of the Continental Powers in the air, and that it was England which hindered it from materialising. Of course the European Foreign Offices have denied it with characteristic audacity.
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