Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The European Crisis of 1870: A Lecture Delivered in Aid of the Toronto Newsboys' Home, February 7th, 1871
The sudlen declaration of war by the Emperor of the French was compared to a thunderbolt out of the blue. But the thunder-cloud out of which that thunderbolt fell, and which had long been lowering over Europe, was that great French army without employment, with no threatened frontier to defend, no disaffected provinces to hold down, full of traditions of Napo leonic glory and plunder, each of its soldiers dreaming of the Marshal's baton, which he carried in his knapsack, and its offi cers weary of inaction, poorly paid, and many of them in debt. The existence of such an army: has never failed to bring on war; and until the French army was reduced or destroyed, there was no hope for Europe of secure peace.
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