The War of the Future. By General von Bernhardi. Trans-
lated by F. A. Holt. (Hutchinson. 16s. net.)—This is mainly a professional treatise, discussing the military lessons of the late war and the modifications of tactics and armaments which should be adopted in the next war. The author's account of the stupendous efforts that would have to be made—greater even than those which Germany made before 1914—by a nation bent on war should be useful propaganda for the League of Nations, which he regards as a " beautiful dream." As General von Bernhardi was one of the most active advocates of wa r for the German domination of the world, and as he predicted with some accuracy the nature of the struggle, his new book is bound to excite suspicion. He hedges in his preface where he says that Germany cannot fight again for the present. But in the book he avowedly counts on the German War Office to organize a large army, contrary to the peace terms, as Prussia did after Jena. General Bernhardi's real sentiments must be judged by the book and not by the preface.
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