Out of Their Own If otdhs. (D. Appleton and Co.
58. net.)—This well. arranged collection of the " utterances of German rulers, statesinen, savants, publicists, journalists, poets, business men, party leaders, and soldiers" about the war is most instructive, and deserves to be widely read. It is a powerful counterblast to the Pacificiat agitation which is based on the assumption that Germany's leaders are honest in their professed desire for a reasonable peace. As judged by their own words, the directors of German policy have in no wise abandoned their demands for other nations' territory, though they now use the word "guarantees" instead of " annexa- tions " as in the early months of the war. Mr. William Roscoe Thayer in a brief Introduction sitillg up "military Prussianism " as "cruelty and mendacity," and his verdict is borne out by the contents of this valuable little book.
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