The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-12-17
APPRAllst MAX HARDEN
AS BRILLIANT WRITER

Paris Dec is,---.ioseph Heinaeli,
the great French rubllcist and au-
thority On iDternati cnaI affairs. has
written the preface to little volume
tust published In Paris, entitled,
"Germans and Her Enfan, Terrible .
The "enfant terrible In Maximilian
Harden. the famous German firebrand
journalist. The book contains
thoughts and articles OF Harden in
geniousiy grouped by a PARTS woman
who writes under the pseudonym of
"ysiad." M. Rctnach's preface. which
is being widely quoted by the French
press. foilows.)
Nv JOSEPH RE1yACH.
The translator OF these choice bits
BY Macmillan Harden renders a ser
vice to future historians. Never has
81 war swamped the presses with go
many books pamphlets. reviews. and
other literary and would-be literary
products Piiing them all up ono
could build mountain of the height
Of Mount Hiares ,ssee
Ths. remarkable perzonaxe who .
DE eHijsass. fts-elssHe sna Hm ,sasa tia
only and nniahT editor. OF Die Zu-
kunft is the greatest writer Germany
has produced since Heinrich Heine.
whose tyFiesl stfti ifpnir1f force HAIR
dens articles frequently equal He
has enjoyed sometimes the confidence
~ chancelleries, and almost always
those OF the antecham bers. But IL Is
his fearlessness that has Melted him
the name .sGermnny's enfant terrible =
What the German government ana
the German people did not want TO
say. did not dare say Macmillan
Harden Invariably did say. The Ger
man government time and time again
suppressed Die zuAunft. the German
people Excepting only the Junkers)
we're amused and waited impatientiy
for the next issue of Die zunkunfr
Although have been for years a
religious reader or Die Zukunft
have been unable to this day to form
"a positive Judgment Of Harden him
self. except that he Ia a brilliant liter
AIRY genius Nor has ne low opinion
Of himself. Doubtless he considers
himself far superior to all the sue
cegsors OF his idol. Bismarck. and he
Processes outspoken contempt for par
liamentarians and others in high
places. He is The most redoutahle
Journalistic power beyond the
Rhine. and he has Embossed on various
occa siops the most furious currents OF
public though. as, Tor instance. u he
Euicnburg "Round Table" affair. in
which the emperor himself was pub
iiciy splashed with the mud Of his
degenerate encourage.
However. Harden's moral credit Il
but slender. He ia apparently =
patriot. sometimes 10 the point al
raging against the currents which
he believes to be minister. On the
other hand, he has conveyed the inn
preston In his writings that had he
been able to choose his land OF birth
ne would not have selected Germany,
hs,t Nc xx~r,,la rafhRr hava harp II
Trencbman Of the eighteenth century,
Heine. 10 whom ! have compared
Harden. had the courage to become a
Frenchman---s'a liberated prussian.
in his own words. That courage Har-
den lacks.
On October IL, 1914, Harden wrote
1T In neither By surprise nor
against our will that we are today
confronted with the terrific risk OF
this war. We wanted II. because we
had to und could want il.
TO the devil with the winners
whose excuses make IL ridiculous in
the eyes OF the world. We do not
stand before the tribunal Of Europe.
We shall not present ourselves before
that tribunal.
Our might shall create In Europe
d new right Germany strikes. When
she shall have conquercd new
donna bv her genius the priests Ot
all Religions will exaN over the good
cause of the war
ever been viritten 81 the greatest
crime committed In this annals Of
human history Read the twenty
other quotations from Harden's pen
- series of the most terrible accu-
sations. set down In very deliberate
speech.
Customer--You say this hair re-
storer II very good, do YOU?
Druggist--Ycs, sir: know man