requires no fanciful orthography to free his name from the obloquy of an over-devotion to the interests of colored citizens.  These are local illustrations of mistakes which are excusable in view of the commendable expedition with which the work was issued,—­for, in the late crisis of our affairs, an Englishman who had any good words to give us fulfilled the proverb by giving twice in giving quickly.  But, whatever trifling details might be subjected to criticism, the total impression of what Mr. Dicey has written bears honorable testimony to the accuracy of his observation, as well as to his powers of comparison and judgment.

As has been already remarked, we cannot be blind to the fact that our only supporters in England are those men who recognize at the heart of our contest that genuine principle of Liberty which is not to be limited to caste or to race.  And it is only by hastening to justify their confidence that we can win to our cause the great people they address.  If we cannot gain the national sympathy of England, we must do without the true sympathy of any nation.  It was, indeed, remarked by De Tocqueville, that, “in the eyes of the English, the cause which is most useful to England is always the cause of justice.”  But the rare insight of the philosopher assigns the phenomenon, not to a political Machiavelism, but to a “laudable desire to connect the actions of one’s country with something more stable than interest.”  The English have a peculiar gift of fixing their whole attention upon certain traits or single circumstances which they desire to see.  We doubt not that a portion of their sympathy with the energy and endurance of those in arms against their country is estimable according to its light.  But as the dignity of our mission in this struggle becomes more and more apparent, the moral intelligence of England will be forced to unite itself with the Government of the United States.  Let that day come when it will, posterity will remember its obligations to those Englishmen who did so much to avert the hideous calamity of a war between the two liberal powers of the world.  And to us of this present generation it is grateful to know that our brave and generous young men have not died wholly unrecognized in the land of their ancestors.  Mill, Ellison, Hughes,—­what need to name the rest?—­have stood up to report them and their cause aright to the unsatisfied:  in which roll of the honorable and honored we are glad to write the name of Edward Dicey.

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Hospital Transports.  A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862.  Compiled and published at the Request of the Sanitary Commission.  Boston:  Ticknor and Fields.