I find it difficult to speak, because I scarcely know how to do so adequately. Without their assistance it would have been impossible for me to publish the book at this time.

And now, if I have succeeded in giving my countrymen on either or both sides of the Atlantic even a small amount of information about the Republic of my love, or brought them nearer together in the bonds of genial affection, or hastened by one hour the day in which the separated parts of our race in Britain and America shall once again become a united nation, I shall have received an ample reward.

A. C.

"Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means."-MILTON.

HAT the republican poet thus saw with prophetic

WHAT

vision, the American citizen beholds in reality-he himself being a constituent part of the wonder. It is only half a century since a few of the far-sighted men of Europe began to discern the coming fulfilment of Milton's glorious dream. The Republic made little impression on the older lands until 1850, when the census revealed how