...Theodore Ropp Book Reviews 375 as few do, the politics of statesmanship. All who would seek better under­ standing of foreign policy for democracies in mid-twentieth century are urged to read it. Alexander deconde The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945. By Gordon A. Craig. Oxford...

...Frederic B. M. Hollyday The Failure of the Prussian Reform Movement, 1807-1819 . By Simon Walter M. . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1955 . Pp. xii , 272 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 Book Reviews 257 The Failure of the Prussian Reform Movement...

...Roy Temple House Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 Problems ot State Religious Instruction in Germany Roy Temple House, Prussian-American Exchange Instructor in English in the Guericke-Oberrealschule Magdeburg, Germany. There is a malicious story, of presumably foreign parentage...

... of Garibaldi that he had the divine stupidity of a hero, and this is partially substantiated by Garibaldi s participation in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. The old lion was then sixty-three years of age, and given to rising at five and retiring at eight o clock. The French war minister declared...

... issued in the upheaval of 1848. The period from 1815 to 1848 was marked by Austro-Prussian collaboration; the lesser states reluctantly acquiesced in the reactionary legislation rather than risk the displeasure of the great powers, even though this policy meant serious inroads on their sovereignty...

... and Bavaria and the grand duchies of Baden and Hesse, was left undecided. For the time being they occupied an unprecedented position of independence. But being weak individually and unable to agree on a formula of union or confederation, they had to be supported with the Prussian harness. But how could...

...), and his great-grandson, Frederick the Great (1740-1786). Out of scat­ tered possessions open to attack on the sandy North German plain they fashioned a great power. They formed a Prussian administration, a Prussian state, and were in the process of forming a Prussian nation. The exceptional interest...

... by a wise man, a diplomatist who understands, Book Reviews 375 as few do, the politics of statesmanship. All who would seek better under­ standing of foreign policy for democracies in mid-twentieth century are urged to read it. Alexander deconde The Politics of the Prussian Army, 1640-1945. By Gordon...

...-Prussian coalition, is sweeping down on the vir­ tually helpless city, with its New Idea. War has been in progress for five months, and Longwy and Verdun forts extraordinary have fallen before the Teutonic invasion. Nearer come the forces of privilege and doom. Louis XVI and his Austrian wife have fled...

... of evidence admits of no demur thus far. However, it is impossible to accept his conclusion that the moves made by Bismarck were, on the whole, such as would have suggested them­ selves to any conservative-minded Prussian statesman. Whom could the author possibly have in mind? No other Prussian showed...

... them­ selves to any conservative-minded Prussian statesman. Whom could the author possibly have in mind? No other Prussian showed equal com­ prehension of his country s vital interests. True, Bismarck s attempt to force Prussian aid on Russia during the Polish insurrection was poorly calculated...

... a European Confederation of which Great Britain was a member would be as futile as the exemption of Aus­ trian and Prussian territories proved to be. The matter is one not only of geography, but also of power; consequently the exemption of certain territories from the jurisdiction of an organization does...

... was to exert an influence upon him which altered the whole course of his career. Already in the gymnasium Schurz had been affected by the pre­ vailing feeling that the old Prussian absolutism must yield to a constitutional government with free political institutions, and that the many German states must...

... followings in the United States. They dated back to Marshal Schomberg, English commander in Ireland at the battle of the Boyne. Schomberg was born in Heidelberg of an English mother. He was an officer, at different times, in the Dutch, Swedish, Prussian, Portuguese, French, and British armies, rating...

... from the equally mute German poet Klopstock, a situation which John Mander, perhaps rightly, sees as archetypal for the relationship between England and Germany.2 The growing awareness of Germany reached its first peak with the juncture of the English armies under Wellington and the Prussians under...

..., Frederick the Great (1740-1786). Out of scat­ tered possessions open to attack on the sandy North German plain they fashioned a great power. They formed a Prussian administration, a Prussian state, and were in the process of forming a Prussian nation. The exceptional interest of their story lies...

... army, its tactics and equipment outmoded, failed to defeat revolutionary France, and in 1806 collapsed miserably at Jena before the troops of Napoleon. Between 1806 and 1814 the army was regenerated by the infusion of a spirit of nationalism which was as much German as Prussian in nature...

... in the years 1809-14. It is the first really satisfactory work on the British reforms which paralleled the more familiar French and Prussian army reforms of this era, and is thus a major contribution to both British and military history. Parts of this story can be quarried from 428 The South Atlantic...

... by her mother s early German contacts from casting sus­ picious eyes westward at the rising Prussian giant and from allying herself (1741-1761) with Austria and France against this menace. If it had not been for England s financial aid to Frederick the Great, The Teuton Once Swept Eastward 315 Empress...

... the very first that the Kaiser and his subjects were in perfect agree­ ment on the war question; and they attributed Germany s crime, not to the despotism of the Emperor, but to the Prussianization of the whole German people. We cannot here at­ tempt to discover whatever elements of truth there may...