PERIODICALS AND BOOKS OF REFERENCE.
The March number contains some admirable articles, temperate but always candid, on the several aspects of the Peace that has not brought tranquillity. The French policy towards Germany is examined with disapproval. It is pointed out that until the attitudes of the antagonists are modified there can be no hope of settling the interminable question of reparations and inter-allied debts at a conference. Again, in a lengthy • plea for the League, it is admitted that the Franco-German quarrel " greatly aggravates the chances of serious European complications in the future " and hampers the good work of Geneva in the present. Similarly, the American correspondent who writes on " America and External Affairs evidently feels that the Ruhr troubles are confirming America in her reluctance as a nation to come to the assistance of Europe. The Round Table pays a hand- some tribute to the late Mr. Page, whose letters " contain an idealism and a programme which are bound to gain a steadily greater hold on the thought of the two peoples he served so well." An unnamed Irishman describes Southern " Ireland as it is," with mingled hope and despair, on one page blaming the people for their lack of public spirit and on another page blaming the Ministry for their " exclusive- ness " and reticence. The quarterly letters from the Dominions and India are of great interest.
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