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borders of a world-wide empire. Nor could she engage that her people and her colonies should imperil their peace for any and every dispute with other Powers in which the new empire-making policy of the American Government might involve the United States. What is wanted and what ought not to be difficult to maintain is a permanent state of friendly feeling between the two great Englishspeaking Powers of the world, a condition of things that would make it difficult for anydangerous crisisto trouble theirmutual relations, impossibility. But happily permanent mutual goodwill may exist without any formal league betweennations.

In one respect the war wasvery disappointing. On neither side— not even on thatof the victors — did it bring to the front any commanding personality,any great naval or military genius.

The great conflict of the American Civil War hadbeen fruitful in famous men. Lincoln,Jackson,Lee,Grant,Sherman,Sheridan,andFarragut — these are names that have a world-wide reputation. Beside such men the leaders of the A GROUP OF CUBAN LADIES.

Spanish-American war seem respectable,everyday figures.

Probably the commander who came best out of the wæ and won the largest measure of popularity and reputation among his fellow countrymen was Admiral Dewey. His destruction of Admiral Montojo's squadron in Manila Bay was singularly complete. It came in the first days of the war when the people of the United States wen wildly eager tor news of a great success It contrasted most strikingly with ,. tm iliLilieal,and at first all but fruitless operation oi the tar more powerful fleet that had been despatched to We.-t Indian waters.

■ blow it seemed to have destroyed the power ol Spain in the Eastern sea.- and given all and wouldensure their joint action where their common interests were in any way threatened by hostilenations.

This joint action in defence of common interests i., the most that can be reasonably hoped for. Sentimental considerations are not likely permanently to affect policy. And unfortunately there aremany points on which the interests of the two countries are, thanks to their different fiscal policy, somewhat divergent, so that causes of difference, though no y, remain, even after the undoubted drawing together of the two peoples during the v ar. Xor does there seem any near pro of these differences being removed. Anything like permanent alliance seems therefore an