The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-25

was educated In Germany and
i subsequently became professor
Of history in Queens College,
London. are embodied In. a Volume en-
titled Germany and England" and pub
l!shcd by f.. y. Dutton Co. The au-
thor is Prof @. \. Cramb. who died sud
denly year ago after having just fin-
tshca the lectures from which the book
Is compiled. II was all written before
the he8t of the present war was gen
Grated and Is in way an answer to
Gen. Won Bcrnhardrs famous work
Germany and the Next War"
During the last few months. writes
Prof Cramb there has been in the
hands OF large number " Engiishmen
and Of ters VI thousands Of Germans n
very remarkable bouk--a book which
has sprung from those deeper fountains
of nations history to which | have
referred. 1t II book written in Ger
man by dst,ngui he'd cavalry soldier.
den. Won Bernhard. and it has for Its
tide and subject matter "Grrw1ny and
the Next War" t"Dcut,chlI md der
naChstc kriOg'b. pr,,., natitai war,
observe WA e. Be character OF this
work?
one ~ man, similar v'oh> winch dur
ing the last gem ~ tw''Vu N"lr' hdN"
been wide, red 20 Germany. g. "1' an
extraordinnr, interest for NJ. and ar IN
tcrcat of a r.'ul s.d,d Kind J, e. - iair
and lust book. according 60 lu" Wrt'rs
insight. soiii,r''l>c .u i's r.u.r''.iN. SOL
d'crl!l" in Eta Hnsi.l"';,d '.''''N hd-
vibrations T. has % distinct -.'r htdn'c
not only because OF i;s mldtir, 'rlu-
,iem buf because ~ .ts know 'ug' ~
German history aud civilization. Tor
Cen Won Baruhlrdl Is som ;h'n- or
scholar as well as % diytiuE l.tr'd roll
dior. Like mauy Grrmau officers. IL"
has attempted u understand not "n'F
his profession - % soldier but tho why
" that prof, sion. studying the history
he literature. III, politics and oven me
philosophy Of his nation, seeking the
answer to thc question: What - Ger
many?
In tho .h...urv of nations v" must
count time By decades or even by 'eN-
turtles. Under ohaugcful moods ~ tu-
r'ous Gtclamatory anger. AZ in the crisis
~ the Beer war. and under the MOOD OF
uomcnt,rv rapprnchcmcut of IN" pes
prt dav IN the crisis OF the reawuken-
'nr Of the national spirit In France, this
steady thought persists. tina; Is one
Interest ~ tho book. There il. again
remit made 10y German 10 explain
10 himself England and Germany In
their relations to- one another. and this
Is ono Of the underlying thoughts
throughout the book.
Again. the book has the interest de-
rived from the fact that It repre- sents
very strong trend of German, and
above all, OF Prussian opinion-the
accommodating mass of determined anti
glshism. II H. useless 10 see in
Rernha~drs book the expression Of n
morbid or heated j.ngoism. II Is no
RHAPSODY on war. Bernhard IL not
man who takes any excessive pleas
nre in the contemplation OF war: on
the contrary. But he is man who
recognizes those darker, ohscurer forces
shaping the destiny of nations. To him
this war with England is inevitable.
And his book is symptomatic that is to
say, II represents the mood the convic-
iion. ghe fewent faith Of thousands
and tens Of thousands Of Germans
Prussians, Saxnns. Suablans, Bavarians
How do England and her empire
stand in the path of the deepest de-
sires and ambitions, and perhaps, also
the highest and most sacred aspirations
~ Germany?
n we ask what those desires ambi-
tons and aspirations are. the answer Is
his: Germany. not less than England
II Is Contended. is lowered with the
genius for empire. that power In race
which, like genius in the artist. must
express itself or destroy its possessor
An empire she once had. centuries be-
fore France and England fought. That
empire Is lost. But in the German
race the instinct for empire Is as an
Client and as deeply rooted as IL i:
in the English race, and In the Germany
of the present time. above all. this
instinct by reason OF the very strength
Of Germany within herself. her con
scious and vital energy, her sense OF
deep and repressed forces, is not mer,
cloud IN the brain, but is almost ar
imperious necessity. This is the rea
driving force in German politics. the es-
sental thing.
1t is true that among Germans o
every rank and class there are mer
willing to acknowledge the part which
England has played in the past. who arr
perfectly willing to admire our Shake
speare our dramatists some OF our his
torians, and are even willing to extent
a kind OF tolerant contempt to some o
our philosophers. But there are Ger
mans of another kind, men OF the typ
OF Eisenhart and Biey and, above all
Of the type OF Treitschke. whose atti
t,Ide toward England IL totally different
These men. as the justification for thi
war, this ''nachste Krieg," point TO tn
broad fact-broad enough, assuredly-
that the English race Is the possessor
by theft" as Treitschke described 4,
of one-ffth of tho habitable globe. AM
they ask: by what right2 BY tn
right first OF craft then OF violence!
German Indignation then takes the plac
Of German analysis. Cooped up betwee
the North Sea and the Danube. tn
Rhine and the plains OF Poland. con
scious OF our strength, exerting a.
ever stronger pressure upon our from
tiers-can we or ought we, It Is asked
10 acquiesce in Englands possession o
one-hfth of the globe' The ethico
h.