Excerpt from Present-Day Europe: Its National States of Mind England, only Englishmen speak; in the chapter on France, only Frenchmen; and so on. What other Europeans say about England or France may be discovered m subsequent chapters devoted to other peoples. The only departures from this direct-quotation rule are the closing chapters deal ing with minor nationalities, where considerations of space made the employment of this method im practicable. The great objection to our method is, of course, precisely this matter of space. But there is no other way of portraying with equal vividness the national temper, especially in times of intense emo tion. For this reason I have elected to confine myself to a full presentation of the great. Currents of European thought and feeling regarding the war and future intra-european relations. Many interesting collateral issues have been thereby ex cluded from consideration, and important ques tions, such as Europe's attitude toward America and the Far East, have been perforce entirely passed over. All this is unfortunate, but I have preferred to emphasize essentials rather than sac rifice clearness to detail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.