PUBLISHER'S NOTE
FOR those who wish to read in more detail about the
Background and causes of the present state of the worldp
the following notes may be of some assistance.
The best and most up-to-date genera! picture of
England as she was from the rise of Germany in 1870
to the outbreak of the First World War is given in
Mr, Ensorjs book England i8y&~igi4 (s5&)» which is
Volume 14 of the new Oxford Hisiavy of England, Mr,
C. R. M. F. CrultwelTs History of the Great Way 1914*
1QX8 (15$.) may be recommended as the standard one-
volume work on the subject. Mr, G, M9 Gathorne*
Hardy deals with the period between tho two wars in his
Short I&lory of Interiutfwnal Affairs 11920-1935 (8s. 6rf-)»
& book Issued under the ansplces of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs*
The two volumes of Speeches an4 Documents on
International Affairs^ edited by Professor A, B. Keitli
(World^ Classics^ z§« &d. eacii)s and the selection of
political writings in Sir Alfred Zirornera's Modem
Political Doctrines (7^ 6d.) illustrate the conflict of
doctrines so much in evidence to-day«
The outbreak of the present war is described and
discussed in the lectures by II. A. L. Fisher, A, D*
Lindsay, Gilbert Murray, R, C 1C* Ensor, Harold
Nieolsor^ and J, L, Brierly, collected stad p-ubiished
hi one volume under the title Th& Background and
fam&$ of tfie'War (6s.).
The prices quoted above am mt md held good in
December ig$o% but are Imbk to altmithti without wiles*