The Britannica War Books. _Germany_. (2s. 6d. net.) By W. Alison Phillips and J.W. Headlam. (A somewhat carelessly abridged reprint from the standard article in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_.)
H.S. CHAMBERLAIN. _The foundations of the Nineteenth Century_. English translation. 2 vols. 1910. (25s. net.) (This book had an immense vogue in Germany, and was particularly recommended by the Kaiser to his subjects. It is full of interesting, if ill-founded, generalisations tending to emphasise the importance of Race and to glorify the German race.)
ROBERTSON. _German Literature_. 1914. Home University Library. (1s.)
HERFORD AND OTHERS. _Germany in the Nineteenth Century_. Manchester. 1912. (2s. 6d.) Essays on different aspects of German development.
BERNHARDT. _Germany and the Next War_. 1912. (2s. net.) (The philosophy and aims of Gorman militarism worked out.)
CRAMB. _Germany and England_. 1914. (2s. 6d. net.) (An account of Treitschke and his school of thought: interesting for the light it throws on German misconceptions about Great Britain.)
TREITSCHKE. _Selections from his Lectures on Politics_. 1914.
The writings of the following German professors will be found interesting if procurable: Oncken, Meinecke (both contributors to the _Cambridge Modern History_), Delbrück, Sombart, Erich Marcks (see his lectures on Germany in _Lectures on the History of the Nineteenth Century_, edited by Kirkpatrick, Cambridge, 1900, 4s. 6d.), Schiemann, Lamprecht, Schmoller, and F. von Liszt.
_Note_.--Such considered German writings as have come to hand since the outbreak of the war show little tendency to cope with the real facts of the situation, or even to seek to understand them. They seem to indicate two developments in German opinion.
(1) A great consolidation of German national unity (except, of course, in Poland and Alsace-Lorraine).
(2) A tendency to forgo the consideration of the immediate issues and to hark back in thought to 1870 or even to the Wars of Liberation. It is difficult to judge of a nation in arms from the writings of its stay-at-homes; but no one can read recent articles by the leaders of German thought without feeling that the Germans are still, before all things and incurably, "the people of poets and philosophers," and that, by a tragic irony, it is the best and most characteristic qualities of the race which are sustaining and will continue to sustain it in the conflict in which its dreams have involved it.