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It is extremely valuable to have such a survey as Contem- porary Movements in European Literature edited by William Rose and J. Isaacs (Routledge, 10s. (id.). Of course, many of the papers in it have the air of being a little premature ; there has been a shifting of standards and an uneasy desire to start on new tracks since the War ; there is still no clear drift. But this was in any case hound to be true of a book which deals with contemporary literature, before the repre- sentative spirits of the time have had full opportunity to declare themselves and give us reference points by which we can economize our attention. The writers of England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, Czecho- Slovakia, and Holland are all passed under review by different authorities, and there are most valuable bibliographies at the end of the book including also a list of the most important translations into English. The most notable lack is an account of the modern literature of the Balkan countries.
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