SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily pedals subsequent resists.] My Four Years in Germany. By James IV. Gerard. (Hodder and Stoughton. 7e. 6d. net.)—Mr. Gerants remarkable account of his experiences as the American Minister in Berlin has, in the columns of the Daily Telegraph, amazed Europe, and its publication in the American Press has materially helped to confirm his countrymen in the belief that war between America and Germany was just and inevitable. It now appears in book-form, and will be read again with keen interest. Mr. Gerard had exceptional opportunities of studying the German autocracy, and he used thorn to the full. This is one of the few really important books to which the war has given birth. The Emperor's telegram of August 10th, 1914, to Mr. Wilson, containing his lying version of the origin of the war, is fully reproduced in facsimile, with other documents, such as the new treaty that Mr. Gerard was ask,d to sign before leaving, and the instructions given by the German Press Bureau to the newspapers for articles describing a Zeppelin raid on Lendon.
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