Excerpt from Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, Vol. 5 The present instalment of Treits'chke's History covers a very short period, for, excepting the survey of intellectual movements contained in the final, and perhaps for the majority of readers most attractive, chapter on Young Germany, the events narrated fall for the most part to several years preceding and following the July Revolution of 1830. Alike in thought and style the contents of the book are thoroughly characteristic of the historian. His mastery of his material is complete, Whatever. One may think of his interpretation of facts; his characterisation of the larger figures which enter into his story is marked by great insight and acuteness, though not always by impartiality or sympathy; and the fact that many of his judgments are bold rather than convincing is merely in keeping with his entire theory of historiography, for Treitschke is above all things dogmatic and intensely subjective. There is, of course, no lack of ill-conditioned snarling at England, which to the end of his days never got off Treitschke's nerves' and in exploiting his fixed idea that mercenary Albion 5 Continental policy was ever dictated by exclusive concern for her trade and markets and a desire to make difficulties and complications for other Powers, whether hostile or friendly, he shows all his accustomed perversity and resource of invective. 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.