Some English men of letters have followed snit by drawing
up an eloquent protest addressed to literary men in the United States against a war which could not but leave the most serious and injurious traces upon our literature. There would be triumphant records of victories on both sides which the other side would bitterly resent. There would be everywhere stories of the ruin and misery wrought in American or English
homes; and the wrath excited would take generations to obliterate. The literature of both countries would be deeply scored with the passions evoked on both sides, and the united action of the Anglo-Saxon race for great common ends would be rendered impossible for a long future. It is said that Mr. George Meredith, Mr. Lecky, Mr. Leslie Stephen, Sir Walter Swank and many others have given their signatures to this address. BM why in recording the great names of which both countries are proud, Grant's name should have been pre- ferred to Lincoln's, we cannot imagine. Not only in the United States but in England, Lincoln's name is a name to conjure with ; while General Grant's two Presidencies unfortunately dissolved a great deal of the glamour which his military achievements had gathered round his name.
