POLAND, 1914-1931 -
By Robert Machray Mr. Robert Maehray's Poland, 1914-1931 (Allen and Unsvin„ 15s.), is the first complete survey of the history of Poland during and-Since the War. His uncritical attitude is therefore the inure to be regretted. On almost every question on which there can be two opinions—and- on some on which, to anyone but a 'violent Polophil, there can only be one—he presents only what is the official ease of the Polish Government. The case of the Ukrainians, for instance, he treats with what is, to say the least,' some partiality, while' of the. Deputies imprisoned at Brest the best thing he has to say is that " tales had been current that they were treated " with great rigour "—a glorious, if unconscious, example of what Henry James flailed the emphasis of understatement. In a more imaginative flight, however, he atones for this by speaking of Pilstidski's " great victory over_ Soviet Russia," a verdict on which it would be interesting to hear General Weygand's private opinion.
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