The Official Correspondence on the Claims of the United States
in respect to the "Alabama." (Longmans.) American Neutrality; its Honourable- Past, its Expedient Future. By George Bemis. (Boston : Little, Brown,, and Co.; London: Sampson Low.)—Two volumes of materials for the. Neutrality Commission. The first, to judge from a prefatory sentence signed "R.," would seem to proceed from Lord Russell himself. The author of the second would do well to imitate the reserve and the temper of Mr. Adams. With this exception, we commend his work as a vindi- cation of the course of his Government on international questions, and it protest against encouraging the Fenian attacks on Canada. The de- spatches on the case of the Alabama have been discussed so often, and have given rise to such angry feelings, such assertions and recriminations,. that we must be excused from treading cineri doloso. Let us hope that. themembers of the Commission will be better shod.
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