Schomberg is an old member of my company.

A very subordinate personage in Lord Jim as far back as the year 1899, he became notably active in a certain short story of mine published in 1902.

Here he appears in a still larger part, true to life (I hope), but also true to himself.

Only, in this instance, his deeper passions come into play, and thus his grotesque psychology is completed at last.
I don't pretend to say that this is the entire Teutonic psychology; but it is indubitably the psychology of a Teuton.

My object in mentioning him here is to bring out the fact that, far from being the incarnation of recent animosities, he is the creature of my old deep-seated, and, as it were, impartial conviction.
J.C.
AUTHOR'S NOTE On approaching the task of writing this Note for Victory, the first thing I am conscious of is the actual nearness of the book, its nearness to me personally, to the vanished mood in which it was written, and to the mixed feelings aroused by the critical notices the book obtained when first published almost exactly a year after the beginning of the war.