diplomacy of Bismarck with that of his degenerate successors, and
shows how Germany has brought a world of enemies against her by allowing the military party to run amuck. He reminds us that Bismarck in his last great speech of February 6th, 1888, discussed the possibility of a threatened attack by Russia and France on Germany, and said that such a peril should not be met by antici. pating it. "If in the end we proceed to attack, the whole weight of the imponderables, which weigh much heavier than material weights, , will be on the side of our adversaries whom we have attacked.' Bismarck has indeed been justified, for the "whole weight of the imponderables" is new crushing the life out of Ger- many. The author discusses also "The German Theory of War- fare," and shows bow by its abominable cruelty it has. done more harm than good to the German cause. Lastly, he considers German Load Hunger ".and the other motives that made the war popular in. Germany. • An appendix contains letters _from Mr. Roosevelt in regard to his proposal in the spring of 1898 to warn Spain that the despatch of her Fleet to American waters would be treated as a declaration of war—a proposal which the author condemns and which President McKinley rejected.
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