21 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 13

ANGLO-AMERICAN BROTHERHOOD.

(To THE EDITOR OF rag" SPECTATOR.‘1 SIR,—Very telling at the present juncture is the following excerpt from Whittier's poem "To Englishmen," published in 1863 :—

"0 Englishmen! in hope and creed.

In word and tongue our brothers!

We too are heirs of Runnymede;

And Shakespear'e fame and Cromwell's deed

Are not alone our mother's.

'Thicker than water,' in one rill Through centuries of story,

Our Saxon blood has flowed, and still We share with you its good and ill, The shadow and the glory."

Giggleswiek-in-Craven.