[NOTES ON BOOKS: HENRY W. MACROSTY "TRUSTS IN BRITISH INDUSTRY"; BAUMGARTEN AND MESLEINY "CARTELS AND TRUSTS"; ABRAHAM BERGLUND "THE STEEL CORPORATION OF THE UNITED STATES"!]
Henry W. Macrosty: "Trusts in British Industry". Berlin 1910.
[A lot of Facts and Trinkets. A necessary thing for references etc.]
Baumgarten and Mesleiny: "Cartels and Trusts." Berlin 1906.
(both economic and legal overview. Seems like nothing new)
Abraham Berglund: "The Steel Corporation of the United States." 1907. (Dissertation).
(Account and literature references. A student work; needed for references).

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[LUCIEN HUBERT. "L’EFFORT ALLEMAND"]

Lucien Hubert: L'effort allemand. Paris 1911.
(comparison of the development (economic) of France and Germany)

Net income of railways (per 1 kilometer)

France 19,165 fr. 19,560
Germany 15,476 21,684
England 26,755 26,542

Merchant fleet (thousands of tons):
1890/4 1906/7 + %%
England 5,107 9,782 + 91%
Germany 2,110 + 222%
United States 376 1,194 + 217%
France + 49%
Norway + 308%
Japan + 704%
Italy + 165%

Numbers and numbers prevail, mostly separately for both countries, without precise, comparative comparisons, like the previous ones.
(Scientific value - 0)

‘ At the beginning of the manuscript page, there is an inscription in the margins: a (fribourg)». Ed.
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[LUCIEN HUBERT. "THE GERMAN EFFORT"]
Lucien Hubert. "The German Effort." Paris 1911.
(comparison of the development (economic) of France and Germany)

Net income of railways (per 1 kilometer)

France 19,165 fr. 19,560
Germany 15,476 21,684
England 26,755 26,542

Merchant fleet (thousands of tons):
1890/4 1906/7 + %%
England 5,107 9,782 + 91%
Germany 2,110 + 222%
U. States 1,194 + 217%
France + 49%
Norway + 308%
Japan + 704%
Italy + 165%

Numbers and numbers prevail, mostly separately for both countries, without precise, comparative comparisons, like the previous ones.
(Scientific value - 0)

[VICTOR BÉRARD. "L’ANGLETERRE ET L’IMPÉRIALISME"]

Victor Bérard: L’Angleterre et l'impérialisme. Paris 1900. (Pp. [381])

From a review it is clear that this book is something like a collection of newspaper articles: lively journalism, very lively, but extremely superficial. An account, causerie, nothing more. "Joseph Chamberlain" is the first chapter. Quotes from his speeches, his career, his fame etc. etc. "Imperialism" is the second chapter (or section: there is neither the title "chapter" nor numbering of them), also a "newspaper" short story: "Markets, markets," a lot of examples and figures (on the fall of English trade etc.) from "blue books," but all this is fragmentary, feuilletonistic, and after Hobson and Schulze-Gävernitz it is something like a high school notebook. The same about the competition of Germany, etc., etc. Nil. Nil.

Except for a couple of examples that may be useful:

From arguments against imperialism:
"Les mêmes statistiques montrent encore que l’occupation d’un territoire par les troupes de Sa Majesté profite souvent aux seuls étrangers, très peu aux sujets britanniques: en Égypte, seuls les commerces allemand et belge ont vraiment grandi après 1881 : import of English products to Egypt 1870 — 8,726 thousand £; 1880 — 3,060; 1892 — 3,192; 1897 — 4,435, alors que les importations allemandes passaient de 21,000 livres (égyptiennes = 25 frs 60) en 1886 à 281,000 en 1896, et que les importations belges dans la même période montaient de 86,000 à 158,000 livres", (p. 249).

"La France, ayant inventé le sucre de la betterave, était devenue la première puissance sucrière du monde: en 1870 elle détenait encore le monopole. L’Allemagne alors se met à l’œuvre. Elle constate, après examen et comparaison des cultures françaises, qu'elle possède, comme la France du Nord, un sol et un climat propices. * In the original: "depuis". Ed.