SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not neeessarill/ Frei stdworted t's.16.1 Etc-King Constantine and the War. By George M. Mos. (Hutchinson. 12s. 8d. net.)-The former secretary of the ex- King of Greece reveals in this book the true character of that would-be despot-timid, obstinate, deceitful, madly jealous of M. Venizelos, whom he knew to be an abler man than himself. Major Melee tries to bring out the ex-King's better qualities and blames his German advisers for some of his more grievous errors, but he leaves us with a most unfavourable impression of his old master. It is a pity that the book in written in a con- troversial and discursive style. The facts, plainly stated, would have been much more effective, in showing, for example, how Serbia, the Greeks in Turkey and the Allies suffered through the deliberate bad faith of the ex-King.
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