The Calcutta Review April 1915

There followed in quick succession the formation of the Council of Troubles " popularly known as the " Council of Blood " the condemnation of Egmont and I loom and the defeat of the Dutch rebels under Lewis of Nassau at Jemmingcn. [...] There is a quivering -intensity about his books that cannot be made light of — not the intensity of the modern world that is in a fever of desire but the calm intensity of a strong man who is no stranger to " die stifle Wuste." Maeterlinck is a prophet not of Religion in the accepted sense of that term but of the life of healthy-mindedness and of straightforwardness and of the truly spiritual [...] The athletic attitude of the guard one of the finest of which the male body is capable logically exhibits all the muscles of the organism to the best advantage. [...] " Finally it is the spirit of the hive that fixes the hour of the great annual sacrifice to the genius of the race the hour that is of the swarm when we find a whole people. [...] The same writer goes on to say : " From a close examination of the course of the foreign trade of the two countries during the past quarter of a dentury I am of opinion that between the years 1920 and 1923 the value of the special trade of Germany will exceed that of the special' trade of the United Kingdom." The sentence reads like a-bitter condemnation of the policy which denied to such a prog