THE PRUSSIAN PERIL.
[To THR EDITOR or TRY " SIIICTATOR.n read with great interest the review of Mr. Cramb's book in your last number. I should like to call the attention of your readers to a book on the same subject published two years ago by Dr. Charles Sarolea, the Belgian Consul for Edinburgh, called The Anglo-German Problem (Nelson, 24.) Dr. Sarolea is a Belgian by birth, and he is lecturer on French in the University of Edinburgh and a distinguished literary man of various activities. His book is a careful examination of the causes why Europe distrusted Germany and a marvellously accurate prophecy of the developments of German militarism. It also makes clear in the light of subsequent events the very grave risks which this country has been run- ning from German ambition in their .Drang nach Osten. Happily the clumsiness of German diplomacy and the ignor- ance of the German military party have launched them into war under far less favourable conditions than seemed probable. The analysis of the Prussian character and of the Kaiser's personality were, perhaps, neglected at the time when they were written, but their truth is amply proved by the events of to-day.—I am, Sir, &c., J. PARKER SMITH. Linburn, Eirkneuton, Midlothian.
[Dr. Sarolea's excellent book was reviewed fully in the Spectator of December 21st, 1912.—En. Spectator.]
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