AMERICA AND THE WAR. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "
SPECTATOR."' SIR,—As you saw fit in your issue of June 5th to publish a letter under the heading of "America and the War," perhaps you will also publish the following extract from President Lowell's address at the recent Commencement at Harvard University :— " Can we sit still and count our ponce and watch ball games and not turn our attention to the other side ?" he asked. "Ought we not to feel that it imposes burdens on us P We know not whether we shall become entangled in this war. But our duty is the same, either way. Wo either fight, or do not fight, for civilization. Our duty is to take up what those lying cold and lifeless on the fields of Flanders would have done had they boon spared. Shall we not make our own young men feel that a duty as strong, as deep, and as compelling has come upon us as has driven those other young men to the battlefield?"
Happily President Lowell's address is much more in accord with the best opinion in this country than that of the writer of the letter in your issue of June 5th. I should be sorry to have English men and women believe that it expressed the true feeling in Amerioa.—I am, Sir, &o., J. II. 0. New York, June 28th.
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