13 OCTOBER 1917, Page 22

Short Ratio.. By Madeleine Doty. (Methuen and Co. 5s. net.)

—Visa Doty, an American journalist, spent the summer of 1916 in Germany, partly in carefully aupervised tours, partly in visits to Socialist friends who were working secretly for peace. She was impressed chiefly by the hungry populace and by the rigorous police organization, assisted by innumerable spies, which maintains order. Her book is very readable, but her argument that we are delaying peace by not offering fair terms to the German people is entirely unsound, as she may learn from her own President.