AN OLD ANGLO-AMERICAN CONTROVERSY
• [To the Editor.of the Sr4c-rzi:ron.]
-r, am glad that you published a notice -of Professor Ephraim Adams's Great Britain and -the Arnericdn Citiil Wary in your issue of October 17th. Dr. Robert MeElroy,=the new Hannsworth Professor of American History at Oxford, addressing the Pilgrims on October 6th, drew attention to the importance _of_ _this_ book. After showing how the old legends about the American Revolution of 1776 had been dissipated by historical research on both sides of the Atlantic, Professor McElroy went on to say " The American: Civil War was too close to be discussed with the certainty with which they might now speak of the Revolution and of the War of 1812, but historians were already laying before them revisions made it clear that certain anti-British prejudices which that. mar left upon the minds of Americans were due to misunderstandings which must pass as the facts emerged. ..Yn a full generation after the close of thatgreat conflict Americans had vaguely resented *hat *they Called" Great Britain's .tep*great sympathy with the rebel "cause. * But only last month appeared !Professor Ephraim Adams's two volumes;. which- present a mass of evidence to prove that there was no real cause for bitterness."
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