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ttle in Canto VI., and the listening soldiers only interrupted him by a joyous huzza whenever the French shot struck the bank close above them. Finally, before leaving this subject, it may be noted that amidst the verse, sometimes pathetic and sometimes rollicking, which appealed more especially to the naval and military temperament, there occasionally cropped up a political allusion which is very indicative of the state of popular feeling at the time the songs were composed. Thus the following, from a song entitled "A cruising we will go," shows the unpopularity of the war waged against the United States in 1812: Be Britain to herself but true, To France defiance hurled; Give peace, America, with you, And war with all the world. The sixteenth-century Spaniards embodied a somewhat similar maxim of State policy as applied to England in the following distich, the principle of which was, however, flagrantly violated by that fervent Catholic, Philip II.: Con todo el mundo guerra Y paz con Inglaterra. [Footnote 110: Since writing the above it has been pointed out to me that Garrick's song was composed during the Seven Years' War (1756-63).] INDEX Abu'l'Ala, 65 Acton, Lord, and the Turks, 80, 223, 266 Acton, Lord, on the making of history, 432 Adrianople, occupation of, 411 Akbar, Emperor, 40 Alexandria, society at, 228 Alfred the Great, 450 Algeria, French in, 250-263 Alison, 216 Alliteration, 71 Almanza, song on defeat at, 456 America and Free Trade, 134, 138 America, war with, in 1812, unpopularity of, 457 Amherst, Lord, occupies Burma, 288 Anarchy, 20 Ancient Art and Ritual, 361-371 Andrade, Colonel Freire d', 380, 383, 384 Anglo-French Agreement of 1904, 162, 167 Anglo-Saxon individualism, 15 Anthology, translations from, 72 Anthropology, bases of, 364 Antigonus Gonatas, 351 Anti-Slavery Society, 373 Apollo Belvedere, 370 Aratus of Sicyon, 358 Army reform, 107-126 Arndt, national poetry, 443 Arthur, Sir George, 123 Asoka, 355 Assouan dam, 296 Athenaeus, on dancing, 370 Attwood, Mr. Charles, 196 Aulard, M., on Taine, 430 _Aurengzebe_, 73 Australia, field of anthropology, 365 Bacchylides, 65 Bacon, 31 Barere, 299 Barth, Dr., on Hinduism, 88 Beaconsfield, Lord, and Egypt, 203 Beaconsfield, Lord, and Empress of India, 422 Bembo, Cardinal, 56 Benbow, Adm
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