not absolutely pass him, in the race. He made a
charming speech at Liverpool on Thursday night, just before leaving for the United States, in which, while professing carefully to avoid politics, he said precisely the right thing about them :—" There has been lately—I am not going to say a word about politics, I always rigidly avoid them—but I have seen a number of allusions in the newspapers lately to a certain tension, as the journalists like to call it, in the relations of the two countries. I cannot help thinking it is the result of a little irritation on both sides ; but I have always felt that nothing was more foolish, and that nothing ought to be more rigidly left to children, than the You're another.' Now, I dare say, metaphysically, you are another ; I am not at all sure that I am not another ; but there are occasions when the telling one that he is another' is apt to have a disastrous effect, and I think we ought to avoid it." Doubtless more quarrels arise from telling the truth inopportunely than from distorting it, and Mr. Lowell is perfectly justified in saying that in all cases of this kind, the rival fault-finders are sure to be both, even if not equally, in fault.
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