SOME PRESS OPINIONS OF 

 "IMPERIAL DEFENCE." 



SPECTATOR. 



"A very useful textbook, not only on the subject of defence, but also on the growth 

 and actual extent of the British Empire as it exists to-day. The chapters that Sir 

 George Clarke devotes to the actual condition of our navy and army give a very 

 lucid and clear aspect of our system of defence and its practical working. But by far 

 the most interesting feature of his book is the able manner in which he discusses the 

 wider question of Imperial organization, and succeeds in enforcing the lesson of the great 

 risks that the country has run in the past, and of the absolute necessity for exercising 

 a wiser and more far-seeing prudence in the future.'"' 



MORNING ADVERTISER, 



"The publishers are to be congratulated on such an excellent start to their under- 

 taking, and the public on the existence of such a practical work."' 



ARM7 AND NAVY GAZETTE. 



" A volume that condenses with admirable lucidity the main features of the ques- 

 tion. The book is a veritable armoury from which arguments may be drawn, and out 

 of which reasonable judgments may be evolved. Appropriately, it opens with a survey 

 of what we may call the genesis of the Empire, and deals with the purpose and sig- 

 nificance of wars. . . . We hope for a wide sale for the book." 



SCOTSMAN. 



" Sir George S. Clarke's book on ' Imperial Defence ' inaugurates a series of 

 volumes to be called 'The Imperial Library,' and it says much for their prospect of 

 success. ... A man who wishes to be well informed upon its subject will find it 

 relieve him from the weariness of much research in blue-books, and it cannot but do 

 good by spreading abroad a knowledge of the most pressing questions of contem- 

 poraiy politics." 



PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR. 



" Readers will find that the author has treated the subject with the exhaustiveness 

 which comes of perfect mastery, and his style is clear and agreeable." 



DAILY GRAPHIC. 



"Of the capacity of Sir George Clarke to write on the subject of Imperial Defence, 

 no one who is familiar with his essays and papers on various aspects of the main 

 subject can for a moment doubt. He has as clear a grasp of the conditions of the 

 problem as any public man, and he has in addition an admirable facility for lucid 

 exposition. Both these features w'ill be found in the present volume. . . . Sir George 

 Clarke's book will be found most valuable by all readers who wish to form a clear 

 conception of the conditions underlying the successful defence of the British Empire." 



LONDON: THE IMPERIAL PRESS, Limited, 21, Surrey Street, 

 Victoria Embankment, W.C. 



