All Gaul is Divided. Anonymous. (Victor Gollancz. 35. 6d.) THESE
reflective letters from France, written for the New York Herald-Tribune, apparently by a long-standing American resident in France with a French wife and a French-speaking family, are valuable background material. It is doubtful whether the writer would now make the same threefold division of the French population-not that he did so wrongly, but because later infor- mation seems to show that the first category, the " Realists," are now no longer chiefly women and are in many cases thoroughly disillusioned. They have either become traitors-a mere handful -or joined the " Sentimentalists " or " Militarists." " Militants " would be a better name for this growing class. The letters are obviously entirely genuine, though they contain one or two slightly doubtful hearsay anecdotes, and they give an excellent cross-section impression of French life as it was changed or refused to change after the first shock of the German impact.
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