"'The Great Illusion,' by sheer force, originality, and indisputable logic, has won its way steadily forward, and made its author a person to be quoted by statesmen and diplomatists not only in England, but in France, Germany, and America." ="Glasgow News."= "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.= "One cannot weigh too deeply the reflections of this ably reasoned work." ="La Petite République" (M. Henri Turot), 17 Décembre, 1910.= "J'estime, pour ma part, 'La Grande Illusion' doit avoir, au point de vue de la conception moderne de l'économie politique internationale, un retentissement égal à celui qu'eut, en matière biologique, la publication, par Darwin, de 'l'Origine des espèces.' "C'est que M. Norman Angell joint à l'originalité de la pensée le courage de toutes les franchises, qu'il unit à une prodigieuse érudition la lucidité d'esprit et la méthode qui font jaillir la loi scientifique de l'ensemble des événements observés." ="Revue Bleu," Mai, 1911.= "Fortement étayées, ses propositions émanent d'un esprit singulièrement réaliste, également informé et clairvoyant, qui met une connaissance des affaires et une dialectique concise au service d'une conviction, aussi passionnée que généreuse." =M. Jean Jaurès, during debate in French Chamber of Deputies, January 13, 1911; see Journal Officiel, 14 Janvier, 1911.=