In Littell you will find how few are the recent Sam Johnsons as compared with the recent friendly writers.
You will also be reminded that our anti-English complex was discerned generations ago by Washington Irving.

He said in his Sketch Book that writers in this country were "instilling anger and resentment into the bosom of a youthful nation, to grow with its growth and to strengthen with its strength." And he quotes from the English Quarterly Review, which in that early day already wrote of America and England: "There is a sacred bond between us by blood and by language which no circumstances can break....

Nations are too ready to admit that they have natural enemies; why should they be less willing to believe that they have natural friends ?" It is we ourselves to-day, not England, that are pushing friendship away.

It is our politicians, papers, and propagandists who are making the trouble and the noise.

In England the will to friendship rules, has ruled for a long while.