The Wrath to Come. By E. Phillips Oppenheim. (Hodder and
Stoughton. 7s. 6d. net.)—It might have been thought that the Peace of Versailles and the disarmament of Germany would have made it impossible for Mr. Phillips Oppenheim to give us further novels on his favourite subject of Germany's plans for military supremacy?. Quite undismayed, however, Mr. Oppenheim post-dates his novel twenty or thirty years, and presents the same problems with a difference, as if he were writing of the early part of 1914. In his story the Pact of Nations is an accomplished fact, as is America's refusal to join. The motive of the plot is a conspiracy between Germany, Japan and Russia to keep America out of the Pact and then to make an excuse for attacking her, knowing that those nations who are in the Pact cannot come to her rescue. Need- less to say, Mr. Phillips Oppenheim's usual unofficial Secret Service man brings the whole programme to nothing by his ingenuity. The novel is extremely exciting reading, but whether its publication is consistent with international good manners may be doubted.
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