We have only one criticism to make of Lord Grey's
speech. We wish that in dealing with the League to Enforce Peace which has sprung up in America, he had advised those who founded that well- meant orgariiiitticin to read, learn, mark, and inwardly digest Mr. Alison-Philfips's admirable book on the Holy Alliance, The Con. federation of Europe (Longmans and Co.). That will show them in the clear light of history what they are to avoid if their League is not to be shipwrecked, or rather have its character changed to that of a League to enforce the status quo by acts of tyranny. We will go further and advise every one of our Cabinet Ministers and every Euroreen statesman to study that work lest when peace comes they may fall' into the errors which ruined the humane and idealistic project of the Emperor Alexander: If the Emperor had only listened to Castlereagh's sound sense and wise ad- monitions, the League would have attempted much less And achieved• far more—or rather have achieved something, for, as it was, it achieved nothing that was good and a good deal that was eviL All that now remains of it is the fierce and warlike spirit upon which the Monroe Doctrine is founded. We have no word to say against that doctrine, and much to say for it, but at any rate it is not a peace proposition, as the Americans would find if Germany were to win this war, and then turned her attention, as she 'certainly would turn it, to South America:
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