26 SEPTEMBER 1914, Page 24

Modern Germany and the Modern World. By M. E. Sadler.

(Macmillan and Co. 2d.)—In this pamphlet, written at the request of the Victoria League, Dr. Sadler undertakes to explain " how, in spite of the intellectual and other services which Germany has rendered to our present-day civilization, her national policy has yet been poisoned by sinister and selfish aims." Whilst he asks us to keep in mind "the debt of the modern world to German patience, discipline, organiza- tion, and ideas," he shows that these excellent qualities have been perverted by the subjection of the whole nation to Prussian militarism, which it must be our sole object at present to destroy.