23 JUNE 1928, Page 18

Professor Bassett is an American who has visited Geneva at

least once and examined the League at work with an objective but sympathetic eye. His book, The League of Nations (Longman, 15s.), however, is obviously based in the main on documents and lacks the more intimate and under- standing touch which a knowledge of the leading personalities at Geneva gives. The book, moreover, in the hands of those unfamiliar with League history, may be a misleading guide, for it is marred by a number of inaccurate statements, due possibly to the fact that the author died just as the volume was completed, so that possibly an intended revision was

never carried out. *