Some Books of the Week
Cousrr Canto SFORZA, who was Italy's Foreign Minister at Rapallo and her Ambassador in Paris when the Fascist revolution came about, makes no secret of his disapproval of the present system in his Makers of Modern Europe (Elkin Mathews and Marrot, 21s.). In discussing the non-Italian princes and politicians whom he has known or met he is usually diplomatic ; " revelations " in the modern sense are not to be found in his courteous but somewhat evasive pages. He saYs that he warned Mr. Lloyd Ueorgy of the folly of his extravagantly pro-Greek policy and that Marshal Foch thanked him for doing so. He recalls Lord Curzon weeping with mortification after a sharp encounter with M. Poincare. He devotes a chapter to a not unkindly analysis of M. Poineare himself ; he " seems to embody one of the typical characteristics of mental France, I mean her juridical mind." Count Sforza's long experience of affairs makes his book worth reading, but one often wishes that he had shown less self-restraint, after the manner of Lord D'Abernon.
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