Front matter
Reading edition
Published in London under the title of
"War and the Woman"
By
Max Pemberton
Author of "The Fortunate Prisoner," "The Garden of Swords," etc.
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."
Milton: Sonnets.
"I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun."
Shakespeare: Richard III.
G. W. Dillingham Company
Publishers New York
Entered for Copyright May 29th, 1912
under the title of
WAR AND THE WOMAN
Copyright, 1912, by
G. W. Dillingham Company
under the title of
SWORDS RELUCTANT
Swords Reluctant
to
ANDREW CARNEGIE
non exercitus
neque thesauri præsidia regni sunt,
verum amici
The Author would make acknowledgments to Sir Max Waechter and to Sir Francis Trippel for the generous help given to this book and to its purpose. While the characters in it are entirely fictitious, the scheme for the Federation of Europe is wholly due to Sir Max Waechter's initiative. This scheme has obtained favour at the Courts of the Continent and is warmly approved by many in this country, who realise how inseparably the Peace question is allied to that of the national finance.