11 JANUARY 1919, Page 21

Tht Millennium ? By Sir Ian Hamilton. (E. Arnold. lees!.

net.)— In this spirited pamphlet Sir Ian Hamilton dismisses sceptically the propoeal for a League of Nations and the dream of a perpetual peace from now onward. He urges that if we are prepared to net up a League, we meat do so whole-heartedly and, for example, abolish hostile tariffs. For his own part, he believes in an alliance of Great Britain, France, and America to guard the peace, but he sees no reason to suppose that wars, hitherto the rule, will not recur. The most effective safeguard against ear would, he thinks, be the compulsory abolition of Conscription in all States. "If States must have Armies, forbid them at least to raise them on the cheap—another way of saying that there must be an end to huge Armies."