Chapter 1

LORD JOHN RUSSELL . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_ _From Trevelyan's "Garibaldi and the Making of Italy_"

LORD LYONS (1860) . . . . . . . . . _facing p_. 42 _From Lord Newton's "Life of Lord Lyons" (Edward Arnold & Co_.)

SIR WILLIAM GREGORY, K.C.M.G. . . . . . " 90 _From Lady Gregory's "Sir William Gregory, K.C.M.G.: An Autobiography"_ (_John Murray_)

WILLIAM HENRY SEWARD . . . . . . . . " 114 _From Lord Newton's "Life of Lord Lyons"_ (_Edward Arnold & Co._)

C.F. ADAMS . . . . . . . . . . . " 138 _From a photograph in the United States Embassy, London_

JAMES M. MASON . . . . . . . . . . " 206 _From a photograph by L.C. Handy, Washington_

"KING COTTON BOUND" . . . . . . . . " 262 _Reproduced by permission of the Proprietors of "Punch"_

GREAT BRITAIN AND THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR