INTRODUCTION 3 



professional traditions in French Courts of Justice and 

 the French Bar, both the Courts and the Bar having set 

 high examples of courage, independence, and bold insis- 

 tence on judicial and professional privileges. Science, 

 letters, and art in France have always shared, and often 

 enkindled, the people's love of freedom and their pas- 

 sionate advocacy of democracy. 



American students, thinking to take advanced studies 

 in Europe, have often in times past supposed the French 

 to be an inconstant, pleasure-loving, materialistic people. 

 They have now learned through the Great War that the 

 French are an heroic people, constant to great political 

 and social ideals, a people intelligent, fervid, dutiful, and 

 devoted to family, home, and country. They have also 

 come to see that the peculiar national spirit of France is 

 one of the great bulwarks and resources of civilization, 

 which ought to be not only preserved, but reinforced. 



Cambridge, 4 May, 1917. 



