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peace. It affords an example which it is not 

 unreasonable to hope may one day be univer 

 sally followed. 



As part of the celebration of one hundred 

 years of peace between the British Empire 

 and the United States, the committees in charge 

 planned a historical review of the relations be 

 tween the two countries since the signing of the 

 Treaty of Ghent. This delicate and difficult task 

 was committed to William Archibald Dunning, 

 Lieber Professor of History and Political Phi 

 losophy in Columbia University, and at the 

 time President of the American Historical 

 Association. With what clearness, cogency, and 

 impartiality Professor Dunning has fulfilled 

 his task the pages that follow amply testify. 

 It has been his purpose to 



&quot;. . . Nothing extenuate, 



Nor set down aught in malice. . . .&quot; 



He has made no attempt to minimize or to 

 gloss over the differences that have arisen 

 between the two peoples, the grounds or causes 

 for those differences, or the errors of judgment 

 that may have been committed in attempting 

 to resolve them. The result is a survey of the 

 past century which is full of encouragement 



