11 JANUARY 1919, Page 22

The Peace-President. By William Archer. (Hutchinsou. 2s. net.) —This is

a very attractive and sympathetic sketch of President Wilson's career. Mr. Archer describes his literary work, and gives sums highly interesting quotations from his minor essays as well as from his writings on the American Constitution and other weighty matters. Mr. Archer touches lightly on the Princeton and New Jersey episodes, and thus gains space for a fairly full account of the President's changing attitude towards the war. Mr. Archer's theory that tho President gradually converted the American people to the necessity of intervention is, of course, rejected by many Americans, who interpret the facts somewhat differently. But the forces working in America against war were undoubtedly powerful, as Mr. Archer justly points out