Poland. Edited by E. Piltz. (H. Jenkins. 6s. net.)— Several
Polish scholars have cooperated toproduee this compact and informing handbook about Poland as it was on the eve of the war. It deals not merely with the hiatory of Poland, betako with its political and social evolution, with agriculture, industry and commerce, finance, labour and emigration, and with the intellectual life of the nation. The authors estimate that the Poles in 1915 numbered twenty-six millions, twenty millions of whom lived in Poland. So large a nation, unless hopelessly disunited, should be able to maintain the independence which the Allies have now recognized in due form. The authors empha- size the agricultural wealth of Posen and Weet Prussia, which are highly farmed, and boast of a very large average yield to the acre ; the fact goes far to explain Germany's reluctance to admit that she must give up these stolen territories.
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