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Show Fanciful Predictions o, War. Llpplncott's Mng-izlnc: Our actual war with Spain calls to mind t ho fanciful fanci-ful predictions of such a war which havo appeared heretofore In American Journals. In one of these liiglunttvcs, called "Our Lato War With Spain," England aud Germany are supposed t bu allied with Spain against us, and heavy land fighting Is mado to tke pi nee in Canada. In u much earlier one, entitled, "The End of "Now York," wo aro represented as In alliance '.villi Chill, and our navy and coast defenses arc so weak that this alliance Is thu chief camo or our escape rrom terrible disaster. On tho whole, so rnrns wo can now Judge, a comparison between these lie-titinus lie-titinus contests und the real war suggests sug-gests what Murk Tapley said about New York that It reminded him or old York quito vividly, by being so unhko it. Yet tho "End or Now York." in splto or its extravlgance, had an important im-portant offer;!, ror it helped to call general attention to our depleted and old rashloned navy, and our unprotected unprotect-ed harbors, and what was afterwards dono to remedy theso evils may bo traced to tho Interest it had much to do with exciting in tho subject. A similar sim-ilar result ensued from the publication in England of "Tho Battle of tho Dotk-Ing," Dotk-Ing," Just after tho lust war between Germany and Franco. That appalling plcturopf England's downfall In ono battle, supposed to take, placiin 1875, romcd tho nation to a determined uf. fort, which mado It stronger for defonso than It had ever been beroro. |