Ten Years at the Court of St. James'. By Baron
von Eckard- stein. Translated and edited by Professor George Young. (Thornton Butterworth. 21s. net.)—The author was attached to the German Embassy in London from 1892 to 1902. His main theme is the possibility at that date of an Anglo-German alliance. He thinks that it might have come about had the Berlin Foreign Office and the German Emperor shown more sense. He prints some correspondence, apparently with the object of showing that he knew more about foreign policy than did Baron von Holstein, his permanent chief in Berlin. He makes very free with the name of King Edward, reporting conversations in which the King is said to have spoken very frankly about his nephew the Emperor. How far these reports of conversations are authentic we do not know. The author inspires little confidence. The translator should avoid neo- logisms such as " he was consternated."
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