THE ROUND TABLE.
THE now number of the Round Table is as good as ever. But the Round Table is the despair of the magazine reviewer, because it is not a magazine in the ordinary sense—that is, a bundle of detached articles—but rather a serial book, or, to be more minute, a serial chain of books. In the present number the first and most memorable article deals with " Prussianism versus Commonwealth." Here are sot forth the two views of inter- national relations—that which governs democratic) liberal Britain, and that which governs autocratic, servile Prussia. Another admirable article, and one of the first importance, is " Production in Peace and War," a problem often dealt with in the Spectator, and one to which we hope very soon to return. Yet a third notable article in this memorable number is "The Problem of Women in Industry." In all throe we get the maximum of dry light without pedantry. The writers in the Round Table know how to be sound, moderate, and reasonable without being cold and fishlike. They not only moralize their strain, but humanize it. Their Imperialism is not of the dread- ful inanimate Frankenstein Prussian model, but is living, human, and lovable. It is no mere abstraction, but something with a heart that beats against its side. Finally we may call atten- tion to an illuminating paper on "America's Reaction to the War."
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