The War and the Press. By Sir Walter Raleigh. (Clarendon
Press. 9d. net.)—This interesting and sensible paper was first read to the Eton College Essay Society last March. When it was redelivered in part at Mill Hill last July, a fragment, torn from its context, appeared in the newspapers and occasioned some silly and abusive comments. No one who roads the address as a whole will suppose that the author is " a pro-Hun professor " for suggesting incidentally that, if an individual German behaves decently, the fact might be recorded, if only to show neutrals and enemies that we are fair-minded, and that, therefore, our reports of German atro- cities must be taken very seriously. Sir Walter Raleigh expressly says that the two instances of honourable conduct on the part of Germans which he had heard from friends were exceptional. The writer has not yet been fortunate enough to hear of one such case at first hand. But to report the exceptions could only do good to the Allied cause.
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