Contents 



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Brailsford — Buxton — Perris — Wasted talent 



— Ramsay McDonald — Trevelyan — Mrs. 

 Snowden — Neilson 



4. Lloyd George's "malice" — A weary candidate 



— Westminster — Leonard Courtney — Saga- 

 cious epigrams — Asquith — Lloyd George — 

 Grey — Churchill — Cecil — Carson's back 

 fire — Coalitions versus principles — Hoover's 

 opinions 



5. A half century of loss — Jordan in Devon — ■ In 

 Dartmoor — Cold hearthstones — Deandon and 

 Sir WiUiam — Good maxims — Jordan migration 



— Some American Jordans — A missing link — ■ 

 Hall's Croft, Stratford — A delightful surprise 



Chapter Forty-three 492 



I. A congress of schoolmen — Teachers in distress 



— A primer of democracy — Collapse of " blood 

 and iron" — Han-sur-Lesse — Strayed fishes — 

 Sedan — Ghastly reminders 



2. The Hague Peace Conference — Korff — The 

 Slaydens and Schlumbergers — Woerden — 

 French against Dutch — Gobat — Giesswein — ■ 

 A superb work of art — Dollo — Napoleon in 

 Hell 



3. Guerard — An admirable work — Growing re- 

 sentment — Demand for home rule — Metz — 

 Interviewing editors — Lorraine one with 

 Alsace — Boll — Mandel — At Colmar — 

 Wetterle — Oncle Hansi — "Story of Alsace" 



— "My Village" — Near-treason — Futile 

 gestures — A difficult task — Zislin — Two views 

 of ownership — A study in conquest — Gross 

 brutaHties — New embarrassments 



Chapter Forty-four 512 



I. On the Wallensee — Le Touquet — "Quand 

 Meme" — "Mireille" — Morel — Sieper — 

 Warden 



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