We have received the first monthly number of Eastern Europe,
edited by Mr. Crawford Price (Rolls House Publishing Company, Is. 6d. net), which has taken the place of the Balkan Review and promises to serve a useful purpose in supplying information about the many obscure problems of the Near East. President Masaryk's article on " Bolshevism and Revolution " is im- portant ; as a Czech Socialist, he repudiates the Bolsheviks who, he says, cannot shake off the Russian revolutionary tradition of terrorism, and who " do not know how to work." "The Bolsheviks do not understand that Russia, being uneducated and backward, is unripe not only for Communism but also for scientific Socialism, and that this maturity is not to be attained by revolution." The Rev. J. A. Douglas makes a strong and sensible plea for the maintenance of the Treaty of Sevres. Great Britain, he says, " would pay too high a price for pleasing France, Italy, and the Vatican by reopening a closed history."
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