The Second Year of the Leay.e. By Harold W. V.
Temperley. (Hutchinson. Os. net.)—This account of the work of the League of Nations during its second year, by a sober and painstaking Cambridge historian, deserves to be widely read. Mr. Temperley describes the proceedings of the Second Assembly, the establishment of the Court of Permanent Inter. national Justice. the dispute between Lithuania and Poland,_ the League Council's award in Upper Silesia, the settlement of the Albanian frontier, and lesser matters in a lucid and orderly fashion. He takes a very favourable view of the Upper Silesian award, which will compel the Germans and Poles in the border zone to work together amicably for fifteen years and will thus, he thinks, improve their relations per-
manently. Mr. Temperley is to be congratulated on his discovery, in the Craftsman—the organ of the Tory Opposition
to Walpole—of a passage in which Bolingbroke described his dream of " a large and magnificent Hall, resembling the Great Divan or Council of the Nation[s]. At the Upper end of it, under a Canopy, I beheld the Sacred Covenant, shining as the Sun. . . . They prostrated themselves before it and they sung an Hymn, " May the Light of the Covenant be a Lanthorn to the Feet of the Judges, etc."
The book will reassure those who, not hearing much about the League, have begun to doubt its chances of survival.
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