Cuanirs XII., or Sweoe."—By the Hon. "Exeline "Godley. Londo Collins. "Price, 12s, 6d. net, A study of Charles XII and of the times in which he lived, is a useful corrective to the idea, that the recent Great War wasa new ¢3 perience for Europe or that it ha been matched only by the struggles of the Napoleonic era. The opening years of the eighteenth century tell a different story. Two wars were then devastating Europe—the Great Northern War and the War of the Spanish Succession. In point of time these were practically coincident, for Malplaquet and Poltowa were fought in the same year, and, though separate and distinct, the two wars were cor related. Marlborough had an interview with Charles XII, and for the moment the King of Sweden seemed to stand as the arbiter of the fate"of Europe. In the number of European States directly con-corned, or actually encored, these Svo wars challenge comparison with 1914-1918, For in them England,
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