Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-11-21
1.-THE VAMPIRE OF THE
CONIYNENr

American readers are already
familiar with the writings of Count
Ernst zu Reyentlow They are
characterized by keenly ponetratiye
qualities. The world always listens
when this most famous OF German
publicists has something to say. His
criticisms and comments on inter-
national events are dispassionate,
unerring and remorseless.
Count zu Reventlow has just writ
! ten o book entitled "The Vampire or
the Continent" which will surely
place him at the forefront Of the
historians of our time The work is
revolutionary. 1t discloses the naked
realty or international politics ia
Europe
This book is of far-reaching politi-
cal Importance. Count III Revent-
low has been muzzled in Germany.
in this book he addresses the world.
The work has deeply stirred the fore
most statemen OF England. There,
| desperate efforts have been made to
suppress it and keep it from becom-
ing known to the world.
Three hundred copies Of Count 2u
| Reventlow's wTok were mailed to
| this country or these, two hundred
and ninety-nine were distracted from
the American mails by the British.
The sole copy that eventually ar
| rived, and from which this American
edition has been printed came here
on the German U-boat "Deutsch-
| land"
With extraordinary facility in the
! analysis Of the great events OF past
| history, and an evon greater insight
into the complex international prob
| lens OF our own time, Revcntlow
makes the first systematic attempt to
go TO the root OF things, 10 lay bare
| tho developmental forces that have
hitherto escaped the attention OF par
tial or insuhicicntly clearsighted his
torians.
Reventlow applies the scalpel to
! the nation he terms the world
| Vampire" the one race that accord
| ing to the facts he enumerates, has
ever sought to plunge the world in
| bloodshed, connagration ana misery,
that she, alone among the nations,
might thrive and live at ease on the
warfare. efforts and genius of others.
He dssects England. English motives
and the English national character
| from the days of the "herOic age" OF
the Britons in the sixteenth century
| TO the present day. He relates the
deeds OF the "pious pirates" Of the
seventeenth century; their campaign
against the Enemy of Peace" dur
| ing the reign OF Louis XIV; he re-
lates how the English boasted that
they had Conquered Canada in Ger
many during the days of Frederic
the Great; he describes the acts Of
/ the Protector of Neutral Countries"
the "Liberator OF Europe" during
the second half of the eighteenth
century.
With unerring exactitude, Revent-
I low lays bare England's great harvest
! during the Napoleonic Wars, while
other nations fought her battles as
/ they are doing today. He describes
7. how England digested her booty af-
! ter the days Of Napoleon He re-
veals the true inwardnoss OF the
"Anglo-German friendship" and its
estrangement after Bismarck's de-
parture. Then comes delenda Ger
mania and the beginning of the reign
of him whom the English have
termed "King Edward the Peace
maker" but who, in reality accord
| ing to the author was the creator
| Of the present war All The complex
plots are laid bare through which
King Edward intended TO prepare
the humiliation and destruction Of
Germany. Reventlow describes The
Incendiary at Work " "'rhe Campaign
Against tho German Navy" King
Edwards Unsuccessful Attempt to
| Set the Near East Ablaze," The
J Bosnian Crisis" and finally tho pre-
parations for the catastrophe
through which England engulfed
Europe into war in her desperate
and this time abortive attempt to
i crush her great trade rival
Not a single Enghshman, writes
Count zu Reventlow, is to be found
among the pioneers who prepared
the way for the great discoveries Of
the XVIII and XYIth centuries
Neither do we find among tho Eng
lish any record Of journeys like those
accomplished by the vikings Of old
journeys undertaken for the sole
pleasure of adventure, and Of explor-
ing unknown and distant regions.
The news of the incredible wealth
derived by Spain and Portugal from
those oversea possessions which the
genius OF their citizens had permitted
them TO discover gave the English
chronic insomnia. They had them
selves neither discovered nor taken
possession Of anything What, there
fore, more natural for them than the
idea of stealing from others what
these others possessed?
"In other words, the English SIM
ply coveted that which others pos
sessed and they were angry that
others had it and not themselves.
The planned invasion OF England by
q Spanish Amy stationed in Holland,
has become. for British statesmen,
q never-to-be-forgotten nightmare.
From that day on the decision was
taken, never to allow Belgium aud
Holland TO come under the influence
! OF any Power save England AS