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No doubt Prof. Lugaro is now preaching in the main to the converted. Few 

 people now take the war to be the work of any individual person, or even of any 

 small group of individual persons, except as to the precise time and manner of its 

 outbreak, and most people have had a general notion of the peculiar beastliness of 

 the German mind impressed upon them by the events of the war ; but I do not 

 know of any book that sets these things out so clearly, so forcibly, so convincingly, 

 as this little volume of Prof. Lugaro's. If I did not know, from long experience of 

 alienists, logicians, and philosophers, how utterly impervious men are to the 

 plainest and most convincing demonstration when their prejudices or their 

 interest militate against conviction, I should commend the book to Lord 

 Lansdowne, Lord Loreburn, and the noisy little band of pacifists, anti-con- 

 scriptionists, and traitors who serve Germany's interests so well in this country. 

 There must be some among them who are honest. There may be some among 

 them who can be influenced by reason. If there are any of them who combine 

 the two qualifications, their pacifism and Germanophilism will not survive the 

 reading of this admirable little volume, which I most heartily commend to them 

 as well as to every one else. 



The Sheffield Association of Metallurgists (W. H. Hatfield, D.Met.) 



I have pleasure in accepting your invitation to send a few remarks upon our 

 Association. Several different scientific and technical associations have been 

 recently formed, and each has been, no doubt, created to meet some generally felt 

 want of its members. Our own is no exception to that rule, and your readers may 

 be interested to learn something of our aims and objects. An adequate application 

 of Science to Industry is one of the most essential needs of our time, and one of 

 our principal objects is to facilitate that application. 



Sheffield has been fortunate in the past in that she has laid well for the future. 

 We possess a University of indigenous growth. The University developed some 

 few years ago from our University College, the latter in its day having resulted 

 from the joining up of our Technical School and the Firth College, founded some 

 forty years ago by leading townsmen of sound insight. During this period of 

 evolution a number of highly trained men have been fed into the local industries, 

 and it will be clear that, together with the influx of scientific men from outside, we 

 have now a substantial number of men in the district engaged upon the scientific 

 and technical sides of industry. One of our objects is to give these men oppor- 

 tunities of more intimate intercourse with each other. 



The war has inculcated a more enlightened attitude towards the exchange of 

 ideas, and we have sought to turn this to account by holding weekly meetings at 

 which subjects of immediate interest to the industry are discussed. As the Press 

 is excluded and our meetings are distinctly informal, a freedom of discussion is 

 obtained such as can hardly be expected at the formal meetings of our well-known 

 scientific institutions. The result is, that from a scientific and technical point of 

 view our members are able to help each other, and it will be appreciated that such 

 an all-round interchange of ideas cannot but have suitable influence upon progress. 



The social side of our Association is to be cultivated by the formation of a Club, 

 and it has been already tentatively suggested that we consider the housing of it in 

 the same building which is shortly to be erected for our Chamber of Commerce. 

 From this you will see that the industries,' as such, are putting forward a friendly 

 hand and appreciate the work which we are doing. In connection with the Club, 



