CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Dreyfus Case (Revised Edition). By Georges Guyon. Cur- rent Events Series," No. 1. (Patrick Geddes, Edinburgh.)—The idea of a "Current Events Series" of pamphlets is a good one, and this opening number ought to be widely read. Very, few people in this country have followed the Dreyfus affair through its interminable ramifications, and one is glad to come by a lucid and consecutive account of them brought strictly up to date. M. Guyon suggests a point which will be new to many people; that all probability is against Colonel Henry's having been the forger of the document, though he probably procured the forgery from an expert. Also a remarkable analogy is suggested between his sudden death and that of Lemercier-Picard, who first hawked round a palpable forgery accusing Esterhazy, and then accused H. Reinach (who, amongst others, had refused to buy it) of having been its author. Picard was found in his own lodging, hung, under circumstances that were held to point to suicide. We shall no doubt hear more when M. Zola's fresh trial takes place in October. For the moment we need only note M. Guyon's conviction that the straggle will probably last for years yet, "but its result will have a permanent effect for good upon France." Certainly a drastic purgative is badly needed, but the remedy is formidable.
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