7 OCTOBER 1916, Page 2

The Manchester Guardian published on Tuesday an " American Number

" full of interesting and valuable matter contributed by men so distinguished as Lord Bryce, Dr. Eliot, at one time President of Harvard-University, and exTresident Taft, besides a number Of

other writers of importance. But though there is much that is useful in the supplement—which is quite admirably printed and illustrated—we are bound to say that in one or two ways it is mislaading. In the first place, the general introduction to the supplement appears to us to fall into the common, but in our opinion most dangerous, error of offering something very like an apology to the American people for the British nation having expected them to come into the war.