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THE NATIONAL REVIEW. 



Mr. Maxse hails with great jubilation a trans- 

 lation of General von Bernhardi's book on the 

 next war. He is as delighted as a German 

 Anglophobe would be with a translation into 

 German of I\Ir. Maxse 's own anti-German 

 exuberance. 



The negotiations which ended in the Treaty 

 of Lausanne are very vividly described by 

 E. Capel Cure, who shows how the Koran pro- 

 hibition against yielding Moslem land to the 

 infidel was got round by Turkey granting the 

 Arabs of Tripoli self-government. So, he says, 

 was born the "autonomy cavil of ' disputed 

 parentage, tended by diverse tutors, which grew 

 up to be the founder of an edifice of dissimula- 

 tion named the Treaty of Lausanne, built of 

 cunning formulae and quibbles and circumlocu- 

 tions, and cemented with dainty euphuisms 

 worthy of the author of ' Arcadia. ' ' ' 



Mr. Maurice Low says that the United States 

 is not going to reverse its fiscal system and 

 destroy its industries because Mr. Wilson has 

 been elected President. But the reductions that 

 will be made in duties will undoubtedly stimulate 

 certain importations. He reports a growing 

 impression that the European Powers are bound 

 by " manifest destiny " to hand over their West 

 Indian possessions to the United States. 



Suffrage Factories — that is the unpleasant 

 name which Miss Hamilton bestows upon the 

 public schools and colleges, where, she main- 

 tains, there is going on every year a wholesale 

 manufacture of the Suffragette type of woman. 

 The schoolmistress uses her great influence to 

 proselytise. 



Dressmg himself in the disguise of a social 

 outcast, M. O. Sale went on the tramp through 

 industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire in order to 

 Rjid out what popular sentiment really was. He 

 pronounces it certainly not Liberal: "the 

 popular instinct of the people is joyous, and the 

 instinct of contemporary Liberalism is gloomy." 

 The Labour Party is held in contempt as a mere 

 appendix to the Liberals. The new Labour is 

 anti-Liberal, and emancipating itself " from the 

 shadow of little Bethel and the sticky grasp of 

 Mr. Chadband. " He predicts that Liberalism 

 proper will be joined by most of the present 

 Labour Party, temperance men, Little Eng- 

 landers, political Nonconformists, and the rest, 

 and will go downhill, deserted by all moderate 

 Liberals. But the new Labour Movement will 

 naturally ally itself with the Conservatives, for 

 mutual protection ! 



Navalis describes the Government as " our 

 'Young Turks,' " who have betrayed the Em- 

 pire for the Irish vote, and are now betraying 

 the British Navy. He laments that the pro- 



mised increase in pay has not yet been given to 

 the men in the Navy. The building programme 

 for the Navy has not, he complains, been carried 

 out as expeditiously as had been promised. 



Mr. Percy Harris, M.P., urges that the long- 

 promised relief of the rates should not be shelved 

 by the Government in favour of a new land 

 agitation. 



THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. 



The Fortnightly is literally bursting with 

 articles dealing with the Near East and the 

 problems raised by the Balkan War. In addi- 

 tion to the articles reviewed in preceding pages, 

 Mr. Charles Wood catalogues the materiel of 

 "The Armies of the Balkan League," pays a 

 general tribute to their officering, and draws the 

 obvious conclusion : — 



Whilst men who have travelled in the Balkans might 

 have expected that the Bulgarian Army would perform 

 wonderful feats in war, even those who have been 

 constant visitors at Belgrade or Athens would not have 

 been justified in prophesying that the Servians and the 

 Greeks would play a role that would gain for them the 

 respect of all Europe. The present campaign has 

 proved that intelligent leading, efficient training, and 

 well-organised transport will, in future wars, be 

 possessed of more importance than the greatest bravery 

 that man can show. 



" An Onlooker " sapiently regards Turkey as 

 "The Real Storm-centre," and asks: — 



Has Great Britain staked out her claim in this country 

 that lies on the high road to our Indian Empire? Is 

 she agreed as to what the others are to have, what is 

 to be left to diminished Turkey, and what she will keep 

 herself? Has the Agadir incident happened all in vain, 

 and are we to be face to face with a crisis in which we 

 shall scramble into danger, but perhaps not out of it? 



Mr. Archibald Hurd belabours the peace 

 parties in his article, "The Great Delusion," 

 and, although convinced of the ethical value of 

 peace, has no use for such auxiliaries as Mr. 

 Ramsay Macdonald or Mr. Keir Hardie, and 

 retrenchment and reform are anathema to his 

 soul. Mr. Hurd roundly declares that — 



The world — not England only — stands in need of men 

 of siniple faith and strong hope in the future of 

 humanity who will convince men of the barbaric 

 character of war with all its unspeakable horrors. The 

 economist-pacifist and the armament-reductionist have 

 been exposed. The way is open for a real peace move- 

 ment, free from shoddy economics, world-wide in its 

 ramifications, and world-wide in its results. 



But if we are concerned to secure the ideal con- 

 dition, it is surely undesirable to eschew the help 

 of those who are travelling by the same road. 



Mr. Arthur F. Bell writes sympathetically of 

 the life and work of Father Tvrrell. 



Mention must be made of a little sketch, 

 " Herodias's Daughter," by " W. L. " 



A most readable number. 



