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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