WARS AND TREATIES
1815 to 1914

DEMOCRACY AND DIPLOMACY

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BY
ARTHUR PONSONBY

“It is the completest statement of the case for the democratic controlof foreign affairs which has been published, and contains a mass of factswhose value cannot be exaggerated. We owe Mr. Ponsonby a greatdebt for this work.”—Labour Leader.

“... Mr. Ponsonby’s main contention is one which may and shouldreceive the hearty assent of many who disagree with him in detail. Hestrongly urges the necessity in dealing with foreign affairs of ensuringthe co-operation and approval of the great mass of the people. He ismanifestly quite right.”—The late Lord Cromer in The Spectator.

REBELS AND REFORMERS

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BY
ARTHUR & DOROTHEA PONSONBY

Savonarola—William the Silent—Tycho Brahe—Cervantes—
Giordano Bruno—Grotius—Voltaire—Hans Andersen—
Mazzini—W. Lloyd Garrison—Thoreau—Tolstoy

“Mr. and Mrs. Ponsonby’s book is intended for children or for those whoare too busy to read books in many volumes. But the interest of it liesnot in the necessarily short and simple narratives giving the story ratherthan the ideas, although these are done clearly and with spirit, but in thereflections which lie about those stories and lodge here and there in thereader’s mind. Like all books worth reading this one is the outcome of amass of judgments and beliefs which may be very briefly expressed in thework itself, but lend it the gift which in the case of human beings we callpersonality.”—The Times Literary Supplement.

“The story of these twelve lives is told in these pages—and told witha most enticing simplicity and the happiest taste—in the hope of redressingthe balance between men of action and men of thought, and of showingthat this type of character and achievement can be made just as interestingto the young as the more conventional hero of the history book....This book is more especially for the young, but it will be a delight also togrown-up readers.”—The Nation.

“The biographies are always well simplified and written in a clear andpointed way. They are accompanied by portraits, which add not a littleto the work’s attractiveness as a book unusually well fitted to the needsof young readers who are beginning to take an interest in history.”—TheScotsman.