The Daily Mail during the week has been doing excellent
service in making the wider British public understand that German dislike of England is not a whim or a fancy, or the mere outcome of bad manners, but the result of a carefully thought out policy. On Tuesday the Daily Mail published a striking series of quotations from the writings and speeches of leading Germans, all inspired by the belief that England is the enemy, and that England must be destroyed before Germany can attain to her full stature as a nation. On Wednesday the same paper reviewed the latest German "Battle of Dorking "—the Germans are perpetually publish- ing such military dreams in which the constant feature is a successful invasion of these islands—written by a German officer, and now being sold in tens of thousands throughout the German Empire. It is characteristic of the two nations that while our works of fictitious war are always warnings intended to make us more alert, and always involve the in- vasion of our shores and British disasters incurred in defend- ing our own homes from attack, the German pamphlets always take the form of invasions of England in which the German arms are completely successful. We may think that such pride is dangerous ; but it behoves us, nevertheless, to note carefully the tone and temper of German public opinion.
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