Report of the International - Commission on the Balkan Wars. (Washington :
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.) —In July, 1913, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace appointed a Commission of eight to undertake an impartial inquiry into the origin, conduct, and results of the recent wars in the Balkans. It was under the presidency of Baron d'Estournellea de Consimit, and Messrs. F. W. Hint and H. N. Brailsford were the English members. Its Report now published is a very interesting document—at least it would be if the present war left us any immediate capacity of being interested in a past one. Its conclusion is that the real struggle in the Balkans was that "between two policies, the policy of armaments and that of progress "—and an eloquent appeal follows that we should all give up our arma- ments and enter on a new era of peace and prosperity. Events have shown how vain a hope this was.
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