“From first to last the book is one of unusual interest.” _The Chronicle_ (Augusta, Ga.). “A sober and trenchant defence of Russia.” _Times Star_ (Cincinnati) “Mr. Brodhead writes lucidly and discriminatingly.... Interesting and suggestive throughout.” _The Churchman_ (New York). “J. Brodhead’s work on the Eastern is creating a more and more favorable impression throughout the country.” _The Press_ (New York). PLYMOUTH WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS * * * * * FOOTNOTES: [1] I transcribe the following from _Le Lyon Republicain_ (ministerial anti-clerical), 1905:--“The criminality of youths from sixteen to twenty-five is increasing in shameful and overwhelming proportions. This collection of beardless scoundrels, cynically vicious, murderers, thieves, _souteneurs_, is the curse of our large cities.... It is only since fifteen or eighteen years at most that criminalists notice this remarkable depravation of youths almost children.... May we not ask if the State that has done the most for instruction has not done the least for education? Truly this frightful development of youthful criminality, of alcoholism, and anti-socialism must make us reflect.” “_Fifteen years or eighteen at most._” The scholar anti-Christian laws of Jules Ferry, Goblet, Paul Bert, date from 1882 to 1895, and by their fruits they are judged. [2] In January, 1906, M. Poincaré, minister of finance, in reply to M. Grousseau, admitted that up to February, 1905, the State had advanced the sum of 4,551,319 frs. to the liquidators of the Congregations. [3] “Vel Judam non videtis, quomodo non dormit, sed festinat tradere me Judæis?” (Feria V in Cœna Domini--“See ye not Judas, how he sleeps not, but makes haste to betray me into the hands of the Jews?”) [4] According to a recent article in the _Figaro_, 8th October, 1906, among the conscripts sent this month to the army by Paris, ninety could neither read nor write; seventy-nine could read only. [5] It was only at the annual September Convent of the Grand Orient, 1904, that it was decided to rush the assault on the Church itself by the law of alleged separation. “Il nous reste un rude coup de collier à donner ... la separation figurera en Janvier prochain a l’ordre du jour de la chambre.” [6] At the Free-Thought Congress. [7] His native city recently hoisted the French flag and proclaimed its annexation to the Third Republic, 1906. Of course it was only a platonic demonstration on the part of Sicilian Freemasons.