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Crime ; " " The Pardoning Power ; " " International Copyright ; " 

 " Anglican and Gallican Liberty," translated into German by Mitter- 

 maier ; "• On the Post-Oilice and Post-Office Reform ; " " On the Inde- 

 pendence of the Judiciary ; " " On Two Houses of Legislature ; " " On 

 Guerilla Parties ; " and " On Nationalism," a fragment. He wrote 

 more or less for the press, and had friendly correspondence with Euro- 

 pean publicists. M. Rolin-Jaecquemyus says of him, that when the 

 " Revue de Droit International " was founded, Lieber was brouglit into 

 comiection with him through Laboulaye and Bluntschli ; and that a 

 free interchange of thought between the two followed, which gave him 

 an opportunity to know the character and individuality of his friend, 

 although they never saw one another. " His attention was especially 

 fixed," says this gentleman, "in these later times on international law, 

 on the future of this science, on the practical sanctions to be given 

 to it. While he applauded the successes of Germany, his fatherland, 

 he did not desire for it an exclusive empire ; and he vividly appreciated 

 the advantage which should result from the pacific rivalry of some 

 great nations." 



We thank Germany for her step-motherly treatment of a son of hers, 

 who, as he came here for refuge, brought hither, with no fanatical hos- 

 tility to the land which he left, her stores of learning, and engrafted 

 them on Anglo-Saxon political wisdom. 



The severe training given by the Military Academy at West Point 

 makes such an exception to our usual education that it has sometimes 

 been stigmatized as " monastic." It is as if a piece of the stern, 

 silent discipline, so over-developed in Europe, had been transplanted 

 to a country whose discipline comes only through much arguing and 

 voting. The very fact that such training is an exception, and almost 

 in opposition to the prevailing one, gives mark and power to those 

 who have been subjected to it. Their rigid obedience, their directness 

 in speech and act, and their concentration of thought, carried some- 

 times even to naiTowness, attract notice among a people who possess 

 these qualities, not in their simple form, but complicated with qualities 

 antagonistic. 



And so it has come about that an establishment insignificant in size, 

 and hampered by conditions unfiivorable to instruction, has neverthe- 

 less sent out a great number of notable men, — notable in the sense of 

 being useful and of having authority. 



A very striking example was in George Gordon Meade, who died 

 at Philadelphia, November 6, 1872, a Major-General in the regular 



