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works: Etudes Socialistes (of which I have used for quotation the English translation by Mrs. Minturn), Les Preuves, L’Armée Nouvelle and numerous pamphlets containing his speeches.

Of some of the subjects on which Jaurès thought and spoke and wrote, such as Education and the French Revolution, no mention has been made in this book. His was a most varied, eager and all-embracing mind, and this short study naturally makes no pretension to be exhaustive. Its object is merely to give English readers some acquaintance with that force, at once harmonising and progressive, that was in Jaurès, and so to help to preserve his influence from being lost.

Margaret Pease.