far more from England by friendship than by hostility, the growing power
of the War Party at home must have appeared a positive menace. The
harder he worked for peace and friendship between the two countries, the
harder were dashed his plans upon the rocks, and bitter must have been
his feelings as he sat and watched his country going slowly to her doom,
while he was unable to do anything to prevent.

The thing that seems really extraordinary, after reading Baron Von
Echardstein's book, is that war did not break forth upon the world long
before 1914. During the opening years of the twentieth century, in fact
up to the time of his resignation from the Diplomatic Service in 1905,
it would appear as if war might have broken out almost any day of the
week, and it was only due to the good-will of King Edward VII and his
ministers that the insults hurled upon them by those in power in Germany,
were allowed to pass almost unnoticed.

The book is a most interesting account of an epoch in history on which little light has been shed. So much has been written recently about the immediate causes of the world war, that one almost forgets that there was a time when England and Germany could have been allies instead of two armed camps, getting ready for the inevitable day when the clash would

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