of other nations. This prejudice, though traceable to a very noble motive, does certainly stand in the way of the highest national development, and I know of no cure for it so effectual as would be the constant interchange of students in large numbers, between the great Universities of the two nations. And if the movement lately inaugurated, for a more intimate relation and interchange of ideas and students between the Universities of English-speaking countries is to proceed in earnest, the Universities of the United States must not be left out. In a matter so vital and far-reaching as Education, on which the supreme interests of both nations so absolutely depend, England and the United States cannot stand apart. They must each study the methods, motives, and results of the systems pursued by the other, and in a spirit of generous rivalry strive each to promote the moral, intellectual and spiritual welfare of its own people-being sure that in so doing they will best advance the cause of civilization, and co-operate for the general welfare of mankind. I know of no more notable compliment ever paid by one to the other, than when your Board of Education published last year, for the information of the British public, in its Special Reports on Educational subjects, those two great volumes upon Education in the United States - so expressive of the sympathy and interest of this kindred people in all our experiments, mistakes and successes and you may be sure that all the friends of Education in America, including every intelligent and public spirited citizen, are watching with equal sympathy and attention the great work which is being done here in the same direction. If the moral courage and intellectual achievements of the English race the world over are to keep in advance, or even to keep pace with its material and industrial progress, it can only be done by maintaining at its highest level the standard of Education on both sides of the water, and especially by extending the higher education as broadly as possible among the men and women of both countries. And so I say let us stand together, and learn from each other and help each other all that we can. As Mr. Lowell well said: "The measure of a nation's true success is the amount it has contributed to the thought, the moral energy, the intellectual happiness, the spiritual hope and consolation of mankind." The more strenuously we contend for that success, the stronger and warmer will be our friendship, our sympathy, and our mutual confidence and respect. SIR WALTER SCOTT Address before the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club, R. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:-I thank you most warmly for this cordial greeting, but I take all the credit of it for my country and not for myself. Truly your country and mine are connected by bonds of sympathy which were never stronger and closer than at this very hour. When Dandie Dinmont had listened to the reading of Mrs. Margaret Bertram's will, he threw himself back and gave utterance to that great saying: "Blood is thicker than water." Little did he dream that he was giving to two great nations a watchword for the exchange of love and greetings eighty years afterwards. I can assure you that Lord Salisbury, in his generous and cordial words last night at the Lord Mayor's banquet, will meet with a quick and hearty response on the other side of the Atlantic. Our great poet has said that "peace hath her victories not less renowned than war," and this ironclad friendship that now prevails between these two kindred nations is her last and greatest victory. It means peace not merely between your country and mine, but among all the great nations of the earth, and it tends, by advancing civiliza |