Germany (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Germany There were writers in Germany who already began to speak of English jealousy and English calumny. The charge was groundless. Baring-Gould and nearly every other English writer on Germany saw in the rise of the German Empire only the prosperity of a sister-State, a gain to the world. Every chapter of this history - one of the most popular in English literature - is a reply to the untruth that England was educated by its writers into a fateful mood of hostility. We do not alter this tone of the book. We understand it. The work is still one of the most fascinating sketches of the development of Germany that the general reader can peruse. But we complete the work, and the completion makes quite intelligible the contrast of the admiration of yesterday and the very different mood of to-day. Germany was changing at the very time when Mr. Baring-Gould wrote. The burly form of Bismarck threw a grim shadow over it. A soulless militarism was perverting it. Prosperity was begetting greed, not content. A sinister figure had just mounted the throne. Mr. Baring-Gould clung to the promise of Germany's past, and saw not the menace of these things. They hardly entered his stage. In this new edition we carry the story through the later years of Bismarck and the reign of William II. It is now a story of a "rise and fall, " an intelligible story. The text has been slightly modified on page 395, and the last few pages have been expanded into a sketch of German history to the year 1914. 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.