Excerpt from Studies in History and Politics
If within the modest circle of my readers there be those who surmise that these essays have been composed during the ample leisure of official life, let me hasten to disabuse their innocence. No such golden moments of lettered ease sweeten the austere labours of a member of His Majesty's administration, for though in the present crisis of the public nerves it would be unfashionable to assume that he (or any one else) earns his salary, it remains a sombre fact that for a Minister of the Crown an eight-hour day is a luxury beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. The papers, then, which have been here gathered together, belong to a previous, and more tranquil, stage of my existence, albeit one has been published and others have received some fresh critical touches since I was called upon to address myself to public affairs. The first, third, fifth, and sixth papers were brought out in the Quarterly Review, the second in the Edinburgh Review, the fourth in the Contemporary Review, the eighth in the Hibbert Journal. The paper on 'Imperial Administration' was read at King's College and has been published by Messrs. Macmillan in a volume entitled The Empire and the Future. The ninth paper on the 'Value of Small States' was contributed to the valuable series of war pamphlets issued by the Delegates of the Clarendon Press. Only the last two pieces in the volume have so far escaped the scrutiny of the printer, the proofreader, and the public. For their substance I am indebted to a course of lectures delivered by me at Oxford in my capacity as Chichele Lecturer on Foreign History three years before the outbreak of the Great War.
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