The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-23
ETHER OF THE CONFERENCE.
.o,, TIE CAR, BUT JEAN DE
,,arfs ORIGINATED THE IDEA.

Nos
,,~.s share of His Great Fortune
stuaying the History of War.
.,3- marvellous Book, Which Con-
-,,,ed the Labor of Eight Years,
,..t tlin $3.50. 900, and With Which
u. viii Bc Satisfied If He Nets
.,-ep-No such Enormous Re-
.rof HAS Ever Before Been Ac-
.c,,,li>hcd by one Man.
r,.y~.-ht,l by the S. S. Mcclure Co, 1899.
s.4o.ver.ugen. Holland, July 15.-An
rre.-. translation Of NJ. Henri de Bloch's
s,sl work on war has just been secured
~, po5a luon in America.
v.ta. car. but NJ de Bloch, is the ia
t4.- of the Peace Conference at The
H,.us. il was my good fortune to see him
u1.r be was on the very ground and
,..trfae lu- tremendous result Of rs fe's
.>O,r
H. d. T1ch is a man of G5 He
i. short. He Is fat. He is grey-headed. His
barais Trimmed closely to his chin. Great
SHAGGY eyebrows oyerhang pair Of p-erc-
ing s..s NJ. de Bloch. when he becomes
least IAlllII, - llNl &C Al - al 1AACC
and in manner. lie is the fast man who
,o,,3 IL those times be taken for an ad-
,o,1,t peace. He is always excited when
be is talking.
Early lu his youth lie became impressed
NV IA, awful horrors of war. He began to
m.k.a study Of them. He considered the
cost OF war in misery and in money, and
h. eg.s.d,reI ITS results He found the two
ieonm,usurate He took up every phase
al ar-umcuts of men who had Planned
means q preventing war In those days
most IL these men We're dreamers and
thtir plans were wild and impractical. But
Bloch UM MOI despair.
He was fortunate and the world was
fortunate in that he was Immensely rich,
aud could afford to carry on his studies
uutrmmele1 by the lmi ,ations of power
IT, He devoted his time TO many import
anu matters i'm his own country and be
came loved and honored throughout Po-
land and Russia. But never for a mo
meuJ did he forget his one mission-that
of aIeHaQug the horrors of war. He
studied studied, studied. His work was
uuoalsug His arguments were uueuding.
From every quarter of the earth he gath
cred material on the subject which al
WAYS filled his mind. AT last, eight years
ago he had absolutely mastered his great
subject He had not satisfied himself
with knowing an about modern wars and
their miseries; he had begun at the begin
n.ug His information concerning the
early Greek and Roman wars was scarce
by less complete than the mass of ma
teri8l be had gathered concerning the
s,r,aa-ss of bis own tl,3a
"A, last. eight years ago he said to
me. ii found myself in a position where
could really begin NV work. Everv-
thing up to that time had been prelimin-
ary then sat down and wrote my little
book"
The conversation took place in the Drl-
vate dining room of NJ. de Bloch's suite
in the Hotel d'Orange at Schoeveningen,
summer resort not far from The Hague
This resort opens late i'm the season and
~ dc Bloch had gone there long before
the place was actually ready 10 receive
visitors He was almost alone in the no.
teI He had ius; finished his afternoon
nap of three hours which. with four
hours sleep at night. gives him his rest.
u, was eating a most frugal supner-not
al a.l the kind of meal which q areat
millionaire would be expected TO order.
AZ last. eight years ago" he repeated,
u sat down and wrote my little book"
NJ de- BiJcn's English is somewhat DIFF
fcult to understand at first. He sDeabs
il in common with about ten other lam
guages. of which French and Russian (bIs
native language) is his favorite His Eng
IsA accent is somewhat gruff. in keantng
with the fierce expression of his face,
But there was nothing sruff about the
way he said:
Let ne bring YOU copv Of NV LITTLE
book
He left the room. And came back in
about five minutes with his arms fuII of
his little book"
There are six volumes Of that slittIe
book and they are large volumes The
edition winch he gave me had heen bur-
nedy prepared. and was French trans
la,Ion OF the Russian original The nic-
lures had been lifted bodilv from tbe r3us-
sion edition. and their tides We're nrinted
in the pulling Characters of mar diAicnlt
language. He explafned hem 70 mo nm
I'll became confused bv their vast Nun
her There are 12O0 niotnres IN M de-
Iloch's Httle hook
lis first fve volumes are devoted T., an
exhaustive et,, ~ g n ne ~ " .l
and in ai its details ,Thev amount T,rac-
ueaily to an encvclone1ia Of evarvibino
connected with battles and with f9hting