Tue Tons is Eve Study, by W.
(John Murray).
The author has in a small volume of 288 pages dealt with an interest. ing subject in a very able manner.
He writes clearly, concisely and. with a very facile pen on the sub-—ject of which he is evidently a master; the reader is not worried with footnotes and references to other authors as is often the case.
The volume may be divided into. three parts: the irruption of the Turks into Europe, the rise of their European empire to its zenith, and the inevitable decline always evident and only delayed by the Jealousy of other powers. A great portion of the volume: is devoted to the last topic, and it is clearly shown how, down to our times, the tottering Ottoman Empire was saved from destruction by the selfish ends of the various powers, their Imperialism, selfishness and greed. Not the least valuable part of the work is the work is the author's commentary on this, and his pen pictures of former times and of the Great War. They hold the reader and make him "furiously to think.""
If fault there is to be found with the work, it is that the author has not devoted more pages to the beginning of the Turkish Empire, for one feels that it would illustrate the reason for the failure of that Empire, namely. that the Turk has always regarded himself as a conaueror: he never made any attempito govern or assimilate subject races: they might have indulgences, but never any rights.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.