"If only for the daring with which Mr. Angell's extraordinary book declares that the accepted ideas are so much moonshine, it would be a work to attract attention. When we add that Mr. Angell makes out a decidedly brilliant and arresting case for his contention, we have said sufficient to indicate that it is worth perusal by the most serious type of reader."
BRITISH COLONIAL OPINION.
W.M. Hughes, Acting Premier of Australia, in a letter to the "Sydney Telegraph."
"It is a great book, a glorious book to read. It is a book pregnant with the brightest promise to the future of civilized man. Peace—not the timid, shrinking figure of The Hague, cowering under the sinister shadow of six million bayonets—appears at length as an ideal possible of realization in our own time."
Sir George Reid, Australian High Commissioner in London (Sphinx Club Banquet, May 5, 1911).
"I regard the author of this book as having rendered one of the greatest services ever rendered by the writer of a book to the human race. Well, I will be very cautious indeed—one of the greatest services which any author has rendered during the past hundred years."
FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
M. Anatole France in "The English Review," August, 1913.