Part One

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