"Bumtpinc He American Narion.'?
By Nicholas Murray Butler. Cambridge University Press. 10s. 6d, net.
This book consists of seven lectures delivered by the President of Columbia University during the summer of the present Year at several British universities tinder the Foundation of the Watson Chair of American History,. Literature and Institntion. Tt will further admirably the object for which i was established—an the mutual knowledge understanding between the British and American peoples on which alone true amity depends.
Dr. Butler traces clearly the fundamental idea of unity that is expressed in the very name of the United States. The mass of literature on American history is so great that a clear, concise and comprehensive -book such as: this will be welcomed. So little is known, however, by the average reader here, and even in America, of the troubled Presidency of Washington—that a more detailed treatment of' the period. following on the. War. of "Independence would have been. of value, even though the excellent proportions of the book suffered:
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.