The name of Treitschke is so much in our mouths
just now that many English readers will be grateful for an opportunity of making first-hand acquaintance with that militant Pro- fessor's personality and ideas. The first volume of a series entitled Treitschke : his Life and Works (Jerrold and Sons, 7e. 6d. net) contains a short biography by Treitschke's friend and hero-worshipper, Adolf Hausrath, and eight essays on various subjects, beginning with "The Army" and ending with " Freedom." It is significant to read, in the paper of 1870 on "Germany and Neutral States," that "no hatred is so bitter as enmity against the man who has been unjustly treated; men hate in him what they have done to him." This modern version of odisse quern laeseris explains the rancour with which the Germans speak to-day of Belgium.
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