The Affections of Armed Powers : a Plea for a
School of Little Nations. By James John Garth Wilkinson. (James Speirs.)— The German likes his politics stirred with a metaphysical, the Frenchman with a scientific, spoon, while the Englishman prefers a strong flavour of theology, denominational or anti-denomina- tional. The title of the book before us offers an illustration of the last-named case. Here the now all-absorbing topic of the Concert of Europe and its dealings with the Minor Powers is treated from the point of view of the New Church of Emanuel Swedenborg. To those who accept the Christian faith in the form in which it was taught by Swedenborg, this identification of the actual Christian life with that of the New Jerusalem will be pleasant and profitable reading. For many years the learned and
accomplished author has been known as the English representa- tive—may we not say prophet P—of the so-called New Church.
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