President Wilson. By Daniel Halevy. Translated by Hugh Stokes. (Lane.
7s. ed. net.)—This very sympathetic study of President Wilson, virtually ending with America's entry into the war, is worth reading. M. Halevy makes no complaint of the President's reluctance to abandon his neutrality, and emphasizes the political reasons—such as the divisions within the Democratic party—which led him to delay proposals for strengthening the very small regular army and the fleet. It would have been a mistake, urges the author, for Mr. Wilson to declare war on the strength of the intense indignation caused by the sinking of the Lusitania,' M. Halevy quotes an essay of 1901 on Burke to show that Mr. Wilson has no liking for the French Revolution. " Burke was right," wrote the future President, " and was himself when he sought to keep the French Infection out of England." Mr. Wilson is acting in the same spirit when he seeks to keep the Russian infection out of America.
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