SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
Waite is this soloing don not neeeasarild yrcotat suhtsguent Dr. G. B. Gordon, the well-known American anthropologist who is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, sends us an admirable article by him from the Alumni Register in reply to a recent article by Mr. Henderson in the Atlantic
outhly. Mr. Henderson's thesis was the innocence of the German people, who, he has alleged so often, did not want the war, but were led into it by their wicked rulers, and who ought therefore to be received as our bosom friends now that the Emperor has run away for the time. Dr. Gordon in reply marshals some of the overwhelming evidence for the opposite theory that the German people delighted in the war, which they regarded as e profitable speculation and as a means of abasing the hated and envied British Empire, and declares that they nsust abide the consequences. Dr. Cordon is of course absolutely right, and no one knows it better than Mr. Henderson, though ho cannot bring himself to admit publicly that he wes mistaken in his beliefs the German Emperor's tame Socialists, Herr Schelde- mann and the rest.
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