M'Lagan,  M.P.,  Mr.  M'Arthur,  M.P.,  Prof.  Sheldon  Amos
of  London,  Prof.  Legge  of  Oxford,  Rev.  Henry  Allon,
D.D.,  and  others  of  like  standing,  was  more  than  a  com-
pensation for  the  care  and  cost  of  preparing  and  delivering
the  Lectures.  Would  that  those  of  my  countrymen  who
fancy  that  the  United  States  have  lost  the  respept  and
confidence  of  men  of  culture  abroad  could  have  listened
to  such  cordial  and  discriminating  testimony  to  their
worth  and  standing  among  the  nations  !

If  these  Lectures  shall  have  any  value  for  American
readers,  it  will  lie  in  the  fact  that  they  were  written
abroad,  and  with  an  eye  to  the  queries  of  foreigners.
Hence  back  of  the  objective  presentation  of  facts  is  the
subjective  desire  of  meeting  difficulties  that  are  rather


x  CENTENNIAL  OF  AMERICAN  INDEPENDENCE.
