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:.-:;;•; ,iPRESS" 'NOTICES. We commend strongly to the electors of England a little brochure just issued, entitled * The Decline and Fall of the British Empire.' "— Morning Post. "Written in all seriousness and honesty of purpose and written well... This little book should be read." The Standard, *' Literature of the * Battle of Dorking' class has a perennial interest, but is apt to err on the side of exaggeration. No such fault can be found with the startling brochure just published at Oxford, in which a Japanese historian in 2005 recounts the * Decline and Fall of the British Empire.' The causes that produced the catastVophe are set forth so forcibly and so truthfully that they must impress even the most apathetic amongst us." Pall Mall Gazette. ** Quite in the dead season a great sensation is caused by a sixpenny pamphlet entitled * The Decline and Fall of the British Empire.'. . . No one will be the worse for reading what, recalling Macaulay's Lay, is for no party, but entirely for the State." Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury. " We deem it our duty to recommend it warmly to the notice of all our readers, for it deals in an original and striking manner with the causes which are at the present moment undermining the splendid fabric of our Empire." — National Service League Journal. ** A clever application of Gibbon to a later day than that he wrote about, and makes capital holiday reading." The Scotsman. For other Press Notices see end of book.
^'^^ PREFACE. This little book is intended for use in the upper classes of our National Schools. It will, we hope, supply a long-felt need. Any Empire, which wishes to play a notable part in the history of the World, must realize that other Empires as proudly exultant as herself have passed away. If she wishes to avoid a similar fate, her inhabitants must from childhood be acquainted with the errors of their predecessors if haply they may avoid them. Had the English people, at the opening of the Twentieth Century, turned to Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Jhe Roman Empire, they might have found in it a not inaccurate description of themselves. This 840676
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