Excerpt from The Origins of the War: Lectures Delivered in the Michaelmas Term, 1914 Advice given by the following While the sheets of this volume passed through the Press: Sir Adolphus W. Ward, litt.d., Master of Peterhouse, J. B. Bury, Regius Professor of Modern History, and J. W. Headlam, m.a., both of King's College, Cambridge. My hearty thanks are also due to the following for help in the arduous task of research: E. R. Adair, b.a., Peterhouse, P. Vos, b.a., Gonville and Caius College, E. 19. M. Stowell, Corpus Christi College, and Miss Lilian Whitehouse, formerly of Girton College, Cambridge. In so controversial a subject as this, 1 Wish it to be under stood that 1 take sole responsibility for the statements in this volume. 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.