Consult  the  INDEX  for  the  com-
plete series,  and,  in  order  to  see  tchere,
in  the  various  Chapters  of  the  hook,
the  different  articles  of  this  treatise
viay  he  found,  look  for  EUROPEAX
M'AR  (THE).  In  this  way  the  reader
may  read  the  entire  scries  of  articles
in  their  orir/inal  order,  if  he  chooses
to  do  so,  while  the  present  arrange-
ment still  gives  him  the  advantage  of
hrinying  the  various  articles  under
their  proper,  respective  Chapter-head-
ings of  the  book.
This  i.1  a  series  of  exceptionally
fine  articles  on  the  subject  in  ques-
tion, and  they  bear  a  unique  and  im-
portant relation  to  each  other.  lie
sure  to  read  them  also  in  their  original
order. — Editor,  "War  Echoes."

The  term  "militarism"  is  of  re-
cent coinage,  and  it  may  mean  the
German  institution  of  universal  mil-
itary service,  or  the  shortcomings  of
military  institutions.  The  former  is
militarism  as  it  ought  to  be,  the  lat-
ter are  excrescences  of  military  arro-
gance, a  kind  of  social  disease  which
will  naturally  and  from  time  to  time
make  its  appearance,  or  develop  into
an  epidemic.  There  is  no  need  of
explaining  the  disease  of  militarism
which,  as  it  seems,  was  contracted  by
some  members  of  the  officers'  corps
at  Zabern,  and  which  has  been  se-
verely censured  in  Germany  by  the
Reichstag.  We  will  only  say  that
militarism,  in  that  sense,  has  always
been  of  a  transient  nature  and  has
never  been  worse  in  Germany  than
in  other  countries.
