"Old Europe's Suicide: or, the Building of a Pyramid of Errors," is the somewhat curious title, with an old-fashioned flavour,-chosen by Brigadier-General C. B. Thomson for an account of "certain events" in Europe during the years 1912- 1919. It is a record of European political history, with special attention given to the Balkans, and gains particular interest from the fact that the writer was a witness of all that he relates, and was in close touch with the springs of policy throughout that period, as General Staff officer at the War Office, at G.H.Q. in France, as Military Attache in the Balkans, and as a British Military representative to the Supreme War Council at Versailles.
Unless the spirit of Anglo-Saxon democracy re-asserts itself with a new moral force Europe, he thinks, doomed. The old Europeanism still rampant; small states are sacr: ficed to the greater victorious powers; there is a League of Nations which asserts a will to power and no true internationalism. In the writer's opinion, true Anglo-Saxon policy has been betrayed by Mr. Lloyd George, who "sold his soul for a mess of pottage, in the shape of a Parliamentary majority secured by truckling to reactionaries and the vulgar clamour of the Jingo Press;" and by Mr. Wilson, who "succumbed to the atmosphere' of Paris and only succeeded in irritate ing Italy without establishing the principles for which he was supposed to stand." The moral sense of the entire world has been blunted, so the writer thinks, as a result of the actions of the Supreme Council of the Allies. On the whole, not an entirely glowing tribute to modern statesmanship,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.