4 SEPTEMBER 1926, Page 18

Sir Frederick Maurice's new book, Governments and War (Heinemann, 8s.

6d.) will be reviewed in a later issue. It is an important military work, dealing first with the methods of Lincoln in conducting the American Civil War, and then with our methods in the Great War. "One of the reasons why almost every war upon which we have entared for the last hundred and fifty years has begun disastrously for us, is that we have never understood the difference between Government in peace and war." Sir Frederick outlines the functions of statesmen, soldiers and people with his usual brilliance.

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