5 AUGUST 1922, Page 22

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.

Blackwood gives a long and highly interesting account of "The Last Days of Dublin Castle" by a well-informed writer, who uses the pseudonym "Periscope," and who attributes, perhaps rightly, the main share in the formulation of policy to the Civil Servants in charge, especially Sir John Anderson and Mr. Cope. It is a pitiful story. Mr. Charles VVhibley writes well on that great statesman, Lord Castlereagh, who died just a century ago. Mr. Amery contributes an appreciative memoir of Sir Henry Wilson, marred by the dogmatic assertion that M. Clemenceau, General Petain and Lord Haig caused the reverse of March, 1918, by their refusal to hand over the strategic reserves, both British and French, to a committee at Versailles.