An Address to the Royal Colonial Institute,
December 12, 1916.

THE FAITH OF ENGLAND
An Address to the Union Society of University
College, London, March 22, 1917.

SOME GAINS OF THE WAR
An Address to the Royal Colonial Institute,
February 13, 1918.

THE WAR AND THE PRESS
A Paper read to the Essay Society, Eton College,
March 14, 1918.

SHAKESPEARE AND ENGLAND
The Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British
Academy, delivered July 4, 1918.




PREFACE


This book was not planned, but grew out of the troubles of the time.
When, on one occasion or another, I was invited to lecture, I did not
find, with Milton's Satan, that the mind is its own place; I could speak
only of what I was thinking of, and my mind was fixed on the War. I am
unacquainted with military science, so my treatment of the War was