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American Public Opinion. By J. D. Whelpley. (Chapman and Hall.

7e. 6d. net.)—In these essays, most of which have already appeared in English or American reviews, Mr. Whelpley aims at interpreting, to the British reader, American opinion upon certain broad and "more or less international" questions. As he points out, it would be unfair to take articles in the Press or fluctuations in Wall Street as ade- quately representing the trend of public thought in the United States, which is essentially the land of the optimist. His essays are marked by knowledge of the country with which they deal, and are worthy of this more permanent form—fur Rip Fgtome eyerr.bing lybiG11 Takes readers q WI 9011r,ItT7

tend to a truer appreciation of their kinsmen in the great Republic across the Atlantic.