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Germany. By A. W. Holland. (A. and C. Black. 7s.

63. net.)—This volume belongs to a series which deals with "The Making of the Nations." Mr. Holland is a painstaking, though pedestrian, student of history, and has successfully accomplished his laborious task of describing Teutonic developments from the time of the folk-wanderings to the foundation of the modern German Empire. The book is an effective answer—if one were needed—to the charge brought by Tacitus against the Germans, that they had no genius for collective organization.