15 DECEMBER 1917, Page 13

JOHN BRIGHT ON PEACE BY NEGOTIATION. (To taz Emma or

rue Sescrarom"3 Suz,—The following quotations from letters written by John Bright at the time of the American Civil War seem to me so apposite at the present moment that I send them to you without comment. I found them on pp. 318 and 319 of the Life a John Bright by George Macaulay- Trevelyan.—I am, Sir, Ac., A. W. B.