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The Peril Of Prussianism. By A. W. Johnson. (g. P.

Putnam's Sons. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Johnson, who is on the staff of Columbia University, has in this little book shown very clearly " that the Prussian ideal of government and the......

Fiction.

KNIGHTS OF ARABY.* MsaiscanuxE PicKmaxa. describes himself on the title-page of his new work as " Author of Said the Fisherman," and rightly, for though he has written several......

In The Geographical Journal For January, The President,...

Holdich, has an important and suggestive paper on " Geographical War Problems in the Near East," bearing especially on the future of the Czechs and the Southern Slays, whose......

The Newspaper Press Directory For 1918 (c. Mitchell,...

in its seventy-third annual issue, contains some interesting articles on the British Press in war time and on the new problems of Empire trade, besides its remarkably complete......

The Living Present. By Gertrude Atherton. (j. Murray. 6s....

Atherton's enigmatic title would not lead any one to suppose that her new book is in fact an account of the work of leading Frenchwomen during the war, with an outspoken and......

The Commonwealth At War. By A. F. Pollard. (longmans And

Co. 6s. 6d. net.)—Professor Pollard has collected in this volume his scattered writings on the war, together with his lecture on " The Growth of an Imperial Parliament," which......

The Schemes Of The Kaiser. From The French Of Juliette

Adam. By J. 0. P. Bland. (W. Heinemann. 5s. not.)—When Mine. Adam edited the Nouvelle Revue she contributed to it a series of shrewd and vivacious " Letters on Foreign Policy,"......

Some Books Of The Week.

plaice in this column duo net necessarily preclude subsequent review.] An article on " Sources of Potash" in Nature for January 3rd reveals the fact that Germany's monopoly,......

Scottish Authors And Artists Have Contributed Of Their...

The Thistle Souvenir Book (No. 2) (Glasgow : Menzies, ls. 6d. net), edited by Mrs. Milroy, of Glasgow, and published in aid of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for foreign......

Alsace-lorraine. By Daniel Blumenthal. (g. P. Putnam's...

Blumenthal, the author of this admirable little book, is a distinguished Alsatian, who was Mayor of Colmar for nine years, a member of the Senate of Alsace, and Deputy for......