10 JUNE 1882, Page 23

England's Policy: its Traditions and Problems. By Lewis Sergeant. (Macniven

and Wallace, Edinburgh.)—Mr. Sergeant reviews the past, criticises the present, and speculates on the future of English policy. We cannot follow him into questions which do not properly belong to these columns. Let it suffice to say that he believes that the policy of a democracy, and such must England's policy necessarily be in the future, may be both vigorous and just. We are sometimes inclined to think that he says too much about trade as an instrument for bringing about the Millennium. The proposal to cede Gibraltar to Spain is not commended by Mr. Cobden's idea that we might get a very good commercial treaty in exchange for it, but on the whole, his views seem just, and not too sanguine.