The Newspaper Press Directory for 1918 (C. Mitchell, 2s.), now
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 and well-arranged gazetteer of the world's Press.
• Enights of Araby. By Marmaduke IdoktlIall. London Collins. [Os. not] The War and Liberty, and an Address on Reconstruction. By Herbert Samuel. (Hodder and Stoughton. Is. 6d. net.)—Mr. Samuel has reprinted from the New Statesman six articles on liberty in its various aspects under war conditions, explaining and defending the policy followed by the Government up to the end of 1918. Mr. Samuel is, we think, on firm ground in upholding the refusal of his colleagues to impose a compulsory Censorship or to suppress all Pacificist propaganda. Rigorous police methods of that kind are alien to our traditions. On the question of National Service, he is less convincing in his argument that the nation and its rulers showed wisdom in rejecting Lord Roberts's advice in view of the German menace. We were, indeed, saved by a miracle, but Mr. Samuel is too complacent in accepting the victories of the Marne and Ypres as part of the natural order of things. In his Oxford address on " Reconstruction," Mr. Samuel utters a useful warning against over- reliance on international or constitutional machinery. " When the war is over, it will still be ideas that will determine the future."
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