27 JANUARY 1917, Page 22

The Hope of Me Great Community. By Josiah Royce. (Macmillan

and Co. 4e. 6d, net.)—This little volume of essays on the war by the late Professor Royce of Harvard should be read by English people who are smarting under the insinuations which they read into President Wilson's last Note. Professor Royce was one of the many good Ameri- cans who heartily sympathized with the Allies in their defence of the cause of martyred Belgium, and he was moved to righteous wrath by the sinking of the Lusitania.' His address, delivered on the first anniversary of that horrible crime, is instinct with the feelings of out- raged humanity, and shows how profoundly that act of the enemy influenced American opinion against there.