Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — September 1916, Seite 418

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418 Literatur.

GIRMANXV MISUUDGHD. An Appeal to International Good Will in the
Interest of a Lasting Peace. By Eoland Hugins. Open
Court Publishing Oo., Chicago. 51.00.

Es ist dies eine mit tiefer Einsicht, großer Ruhe, viel Takt und strengem Ge⸗
rechtigkeitsfinn verfaßte Schrift, in welcher in klarer und schlagender Weise die
im Weltkriege wider die Deutschen erhobenen Beschuldigungen widerlegt werden.
Was der Verfasser, der an Cornell University steht, sagt, fließt nicht aus ge⸗
dankenloser Sympathie zu den Deutschen, sondern aus Liebe zur Wahrheit und
Gerechtigkeit. Etliche Stellen aus Hugins' Buch mögen hier folgen: In par-
ticular the editors Vho control our newspapers and magazines, and who
to some extent do mold' publie opinion, are usually without a sound
European perspective, and okten display, in their quick, but cocksure judg.
ments of affairs outside our borders, à schoolboy π½ινete and a provincial
gullibility.“ „Germanio civilization is not inferior to French or English
or Italian eivilization, though different; on the contrary, it might well
be maintained that the only nation wFhich has abolished poverty, the one
Whose educational system is the best in the world, whose municipal govern.
ments areé models, which outstrips all nations in seientifie and industrial
energy, shows distinet elements of superiority.“ It is a remarkable fact
that our bitterest defamers of Germany are old men. Ishall not be in⸗
vidious enough to mention names; but just recall to mind the leading
American Tories! There is no more shameful spectacle in America than
these malignant old men, waving their fists at the Kaiser, mouthing the
garbage thrown to them from Fleet Streéet, hounding us on, shrilling for
a sacrifice of American blood.“ ‚

CARLVLE AND IHE WAn. By Narshall Kelly. Open Court Publ. Co.,
Chicago. 51.00.

Folgende Kapitelüberschriften charakterisieren den Inhalt des vorliegenden
Buches: I. Carlyle and the War. 2. Concert of Europe. 3. Ostensible
Causes of the War. 4. Balance of Power. 5. System of Alliances. 6. The
Combination against Germany. 7. Real Causes of the War. 8. Mendacity
versus Veracity. 9. Issues of the War. — Den Titel betreffend bemerkt der
Verfasser: „For the title, Carlyle and the War, this, to thoughtful readers,
should at once be suffieiently significant. But theseé readers will know
t00 well how lamentably ignorant of Carlyle the general publie is; and
they must have constantly reflected how impossible it would have been
for the delirious defamation of the German which now stuns every ear
to have again found eredence had his words been hearkened to. Carlyle
was the greatest man of the nineteenth century. And he knew Germany,
German character, and German history as no other Briton has ever done;
in his Hestory of Frederich the Great, especially, rendered such true re-
port thereof as it is indeed something more than lamentable should be so
little known or remembered, as it is altogether disgraceful to the Ameri⸗
can, as well as to the Briton, who attempts to judge of these matters
that he is not familiar with. For each present event is but a part of the
past and of Uthe future; and this war is no accidental eddy, but very evi-
gently an issue of the great world-eurrents.“ „Oarlyle lived in what, in
the sorrow of his heart, he deliberately named the Latter Days of Eng-
land, her penultimate ages, or times immediately before the last'; wherein
he warned her that, if she did not repent and turn from the course she
was on, nothing save destruction could lie before her.“ „I, Who here Speak
0 y5ou, am a Briton, long confessedly a follower of Carlyle's. And, in
looking at the present with my oπn eves, giving such aecount of it as able,
I have referred to him where the past is concerned; largely, also, appealed
for justice in his name, and called on the alone real rιsfρον of Britain to

rouse themselves, if they would not see their country consummate inidui
beyond all hope.“ d

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