Excerpt from Greater European Governments
To take a second exposure on a photographic plate, in order to make the picture more accurate, is apt to have the opposite effect. Attempting to bring a description of social conditions or political institutions up to date is more often undertaken, but hardly with greater success; and when it is done in a hurry the defects are increased. Yet the demand for a book dealing in a moderate compass with the governments of the principal belligerents in Europe came so suddenly that it could be met only by using existing material with such few additions and corrections as seemed of primary importance. This volume is an abridgment of the author"s "Government of England" which was published ten years ago, and of his "Governments and Parties in Continental Europe" published more than twenty years ago. Until this war the general traits of the political systems therein portrayed had altered little; and although some changes that have occurred since the war have been incorporated, there has been no attempt to cover the conditions brought about by the war. The object has been to show how those governments operate normally in time of peace, not how they have adjusted themselves to intense military stress.
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