The London Quarterly and Holborn Review Volume 86

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...writes on "The Monroe Doctrine and the Anglo-American Conflict." He says that President Cleveland was not in good odour with the extreme partisans of the United States when he returned to Washington on December 15 last, after a few days spent in shooting wild ducks. Many people could not pardon him because he had not stayed at home to deal with bigger game. For weeks, or even months, the chronic difficulty between England and Venezuela had assumed, in the opinion o! many Americans, an acute form The problem is one of very old standing, inherited by us from Dutch Guiana. In 1H40, a Colonial official of Dutch origin, Sir Robert Schomberg, was sent to study the question on the spot. He traced a boundary which still preserves his name and marks the irreducible minimum of the pretensions of the British Government. M. Pressense sums up the history of the matter since that time, and shows that the case would have been settled according to the wishes of our Government if parties and candidates had not wished to appeal, on the eve of a Presidential election, to that form of patriotism which is known in America as " Spread-Eagleism." Mr. Cleveland himself had not scrupled, in iSSS, to appeal to partisan feeling by handing back his passports to our ambassador. His message at the opening of Congress at the beginning of last December gave little satisfaction to the Spread-Eagle party, so that the message of a fortnight ago came like a peal of thunder. After dealing with public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic, M. Pressense says that if the Anglo-Saxon race is the product of two great books--the Bible and Shakespeare--the pure American has three foundations for his view of things--the Bible, the Constitution, and the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Cleveland...