Constantine, King and Traitor. By Demetra Vaka. (John Lane. 12s.
"tkl. net.)—Mra. Kenneth Brown, an American author who is Greek by birth, went to Greece early in 1917 to find out for herself the truth about the Greek imbroglio. At the outset she was con- vinced, she tells us, that King Constantine was much maligned, but the longer she stayed in Athens and-conversed with the King and the Royalist Ministers and Generals, the more she came to doubt their good faith. Then she went to Salonika, and was captivated by the - absolute sincerity of M. Venizelos. On her return to Athens, she Induced General Dousmanis to admit that King Constantine was afraid of his brother-in-law, and that before the war he and his confidants had made an arrangement with Germany by which Greece was to share the spoils of a Europe under Gerraan domino. Lion. It Is a highly interesting and welbwritten book. The author is very severe on the Allied Powers for their mishandling of Greece, but she errs, we think, in putting so much of the blame on Italy. The real obstacle was, of course, in Petrograd and not in Rome.
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