4 OCTOBER 1930, Page 44

• The trite saying of Pope was never better illustrated

than by The Impending Storm, by Somerset de Chaire (Constable, 5s.). The author, an eighteen-year-old, does not lay claim to more than a little learning, but one would have thought that a firm that has so long been associated with publications of the League of Nations, would have realized what a dan- gerous thing they were sending out into the world in publishing such a book. No oneAvould deny that there are any numbe; of unsolved problems in Europe and the East, or that the dynamite is there ready to explode, but a casual selection of the black spots by one who admits himself that he has not made "a deep personal research of international problems" is merely a disservice to humanity.