BY THE SAME AUTHOR ARISTODEMOCRACY FROM THE GREAT WAR BACK TO MOSES, CHRIST AND PLATO Cheap Edition (4s. 6d.) 1917. "Few of the many books which the war has called forth merit more careful consideration. . . . His long and varied experience, his scholarship, his residence in foreign countries, including Germany, give great weight to his judgments on men and affairs. We know no recently published book which will do more to stimulate this social sense."-The Times. "It would be a great mistake for practical politicians to brush aside summarily proposals of this nature on the ground that they are unpractical, and can only be regarded as the dreams of Utopian idealists. Not only moralists and thinkers, but also the general mass of the public, are yearning for the discovery of some means to prevent future wars and to relieve the heavy burden of taxation due to the maintenance of enormous armaments." -LORD CROMER in The Spectator. "The distinguished author traces the causes of the war, formulates the need of a fresh conception of morals, states the duty of the citizen in the present crisis, and outlines a scheme for an International Council, backed by force, for the maintenance of peace. . . . It is a reason for thankfulness that the fruit of a mind so judicial, so well equipped, should be issued in a cheap yet complete form."-Glasgow Herald. WHAT GERMANY IS FIGHTING FOR Crown 8vo. 1s. 6d. net. "These papers show with absolute clearness the reasons for which Germany provoked, and is still engaged in carrying on, the world's war, as well as the undoubted responsibility, not only of the German Government, but of the majority of the German people for the war."-The Daily Telegraph. "Sir Charles Waldstein's little book is calculated to give pause to those sanguine people who imagine that the whole poison of Prussianism is concentrated in the despotic circle."-Pall Mall Gazette. "Sir Charles Waldstein, than whom there are few living men better qualified from knowledge of the German country, its statesmen and publicists to form an opinion, here gives a succinct and closely reasoned synopsis of the aims and evolution of German public opinion during the war."-The People. "His book constitutes an important war document."-Punch. TO APPEAR SHORTLY TRUTH: An Essay LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. FOURTH AVENUE AND 30TH STREET, NEW YORK 1917 66 Humanity demands that the horizontal should supersede its perpendicular subdivisions." "Periclean Athens, the Renaissance in Italy, and the Abolition of Slavery are as much our country as are England, France, Germany, and the United States." "The aim of all education is to make ideals realities, with power to guide our thought and action." "After all, a man is religious in the degree in which ultimate ideals are real to him." 383833 |