THE FORUM, VOL. 8

September, 1889IT is now nineteen years Since I landed for the first time in America. There was then a bitter feeling against England in the United States, threatening serious estrangement between the two countries, if nothing worse. The attitude of England dur ing the war, and especially the escape and subsequent career of the Alabama, were the cause of this resentment, which was all the more Vivid because of the near blood-relationship of the two nations. Mr. Lowell condenses and expresses the mind of his countrymen in his Jonathan to John