16 SEPTEMBER 1916, Page 21

The German Peril and the Grand Alliance : How to

Crush Prussian Militarism. By G. de Wesselitaky. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. net.)— The well-known London correspondent of the Novoye Vremya has reprinted the address which he gave to the Russia Society on March 17th last, on the Slav or Wendish elements in the population of Prussia. Before " de-Prussianizing Germany," he says, " it is first necessary to de-Germanize Prussia." He would take from Germany the territory oast of the Elbe and Saab and give it democratic institutions, enabling the Wendish and Lithuanian elements to recover the freedom which they lost centuries ago. Whether it will be possible thus to decompose the Prussian amalgam we do not know, but the idea is interesting.