Professor Delbriick Professor Delbriick, who died last Sunday in his
81st year, took his part in history as well as in the writing it. " Delbrfick's Wednesday Evenings," during the War, were on the side of moderation, and, in spite of the fact that his school regarded war as the central theme of history, and that his principal work was his History of the Art of War, he was opposed to the party which he held responSible for prolonging the War. He was, again, a candid friend of the German Royal Family, and after the War did not hesitate to say " Leaders who mislead the people as they have done in this War must give way." His integrity enabled him to be of as much service to the German nation during the last ten years as he had been under his former friends. His history of the World, broken off by his death, was begun when he was over seventy, and had reached the dismissal of Bismarck. It is a pity that we shall not have his con- sidered view of the origins of the War. His conservatism was honestly adaptable, and his loss will be universally felt. * * * *
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