THE WORLD AFTER THE PEACE CONFERENCE. By
Arnold J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 5s. net.) SURVEY OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 1920-1923.
By Arnold J. Toynbee. (Oxford University Press. 25s. net.)
THESE two volumes are designed to carry on the record begun in the History of the Peace Conference of Paris, and it is pro- posed, we learn, to issue an annual survey, beginning with the Survey for 1924, which is to appear in the autumn. Their
purpose, to which they are admirably adapted, is " to enable speakers and writers to gather in the time available for their task the factual material, carefully checked, upon which to base the advice which they offer to the public." The intro- ductory volume is a masterly and penetrating study in a short compass of the changes in the political map, between 1914 and 1923, and of their meaning and consequences. Mr. Toynbee puts the events of these years in their historical perspective, and it is unlikely that this valuable short study will be sur- passed in our time. The second volume is naturally more detailed, and a less reflective account is given of international affairs in the years 1920 to 1923. The work is written in six parts, dealing with international conferences and the League of Nations, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Islamic World, Tropical Africa, and the Far East and the Pacific.
This full, accurate, and objectively written account will prove invaluable.
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