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In " The World at War" Georg Brandes has collected some of his essays on the war and the events leading up to it, written before and during the great conflict. From the prophetic " Foreboding " of 1881 to his " Conclusion " as to what must be the basis of lasting peace, Brandes fearlessly and with a burning sense of justice uncovers various aspects of the war, never allowing himself to be biased.
In liis letter to Clemenceau may be found the key to his attitude:
" But I would confess to you that I have a very high regard for the writer's calling. If he is not Truth's consecrated priest he is only fit to be thrown on the scrap heap."

Written by the renowned authority on ancient ships and seafaring Lionel Casson, The Ancient Mariners has long served the needs of all who are interested in the sea, from the casual reader to the professional historian. This completely revised edition takes into account the fresh information that has appeared since the book was first published in 1959, especially that from archaeology's newest branch, marine archaeology.

Our officers and men, under intensive training for the war, will have but little time to make a formal study of French. This little, book has accordingly been written in the belief that it may help them to some knowledge of that language. It is not in- tended as a short cut : no such thing exists.

This book contains three essays, written in the first two years of the war to explain to neutral nations the aims, and justify the action, of Great Britain. They are followed by three Addresses of a non-political character, treating of war in general, its causes and some of its phenomena, its social effects, its relation to human progress. The last two essays now appear in print for the first time.

Yet nations, like men, sometimes turn away from their true selves to follow false selves, and to serve false gods. All the old Bible is full of stories of a little nation sometimes true, sometimes false to its soul, and falling into calamity, and then being quickened and helped, and returning to the truth and coming to marvellous things, to the green pastures, where goodness and loving kindness follow men all the days of their life.

One of the minor peculiarities of this unprecedented war is the Tour of the Front. After some months of suppressed information — in which even the war correspondent was discouraged to the point of elimination — it was discovered on both sides that this was a struggle in which Opinion was playing a larger and more important part than it had ever done before.

With the external manifestations of Germany during the war and since the Armistice the world is familiar. But with what was going on inside that extraordinary country, among those extraordinary people, during the war and immediately after it, the world is less familiar.

Of the essays included in this volume all but one that on "The Process of Reconstruction" have been published before during the last eleven years : four in the Political Science Quar terly, one in the Yale Review, and one in the " Papers of the American Historical Association."