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Μr Sarolea egins by graspin the enormous problem presented by the dissollitionis four great Empires that exten froni the Rhine to the Pacific. I hope he verstates the esse in saying ' it ili ake
Leaque o the principi os the America Senate sequatityi votes. The mos valvabie par of his eritioisin is the discussion of the ' Obstacles to the League 1 military that os disarmamenti landandi sea; 2 political the constet os externat and interna disputes etween races an religions; 33 domestic-the adjustinent of delegiicies to the League vitii the changin representatives O nations at home 4hthen come in difficulties economio, of the League, ori separate nations 5 that of the biologio growthot peoples illiin theiriwn borders; G that os raceandi language, O national sentiment, o religion os intellectua culture; 7 of organisation illiin the
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flictin part ories at home The Congress of Versatiles mainly refleete the in os the ob, whils the Congress of Vienna 1814 reflecte the
Sober reasonis a sex responsibi statesmen. ' By the ob minil means, first the in of the arparty, and nexi the ob in systematically vorked by a sensational Press and seereti a tediponb private finandia interesis. modern democra-cies have been more generalty aggressive than pacifist. Andae insist On a reali essentiat axiomwhen he writes that unde modern condition a hodyo exper specialis diplomat is even more neeeSSarythan unde the old conditions. Amaleur diplomac by part3 politicians V is a solare of dange and confusion The popular er formi ope diplomacyin the yes of the eopte is a preposterous acto Shthaliankers and traders should ake ulliusines dealsin open eXChange. The ultimate assent of the nationto any habilit imposed on it is a totali different thingsrom the public discussionis it conditions. one of the mos vahiable hapter in his book is that orithe Future o Poland. showsio thepoli cy of the Allies has varied thrice. At the uiset there e re Polisti armies in very one of the three
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great armies-stiootin do vn ea li ther. At fit stili Allies sed Poland against russi and Austria. Whenmussia entere Galicia the cause of the Poles Was sorgoiten und suppresse l. A the end of the war, withinussia ut oscit, the Allies took up the ause again, and even orked to mali Polandis barrier toseparate Germany si ominussia. Trul tragi is thestate os Polanii, as r. at olea illi first-hundanowledge describes it a. 'he mos vulnerable of the ne vStates. It has no rea frontier an pen plain, n historio batilefield. I has Deither true limit nor centre, is surrounde by iis secular nemies, illi nohomogeneou raee, and with ve mission o Jewswhom it cannot assimilate, o German and Russiunorigins Divided in raees, religions induStry, ClaSSOS,
and by tradition, Poland is ut the mero os iis mightyneighbours It one ope es in the eaque os Nations, hieli as et is isset litile more than aiope.
It is an axiom os positio that a between nations the sentiment of gratitude has no plaee. To-day emight ather a that in rutitude is the natura and normal rule . e are told that our eounir is no the objecti universa ill- vili and depreciation union Our Allies and friendi neutrals This is ulteri unreusΟnable, ut it seem tote human nature There is notonelower hieli, have injured-nor evenine thut
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elaims to Ome Mediterranean coasis. Poland is fore that e cannot hiarante her the extensions hedemands. Roumania, Italy, Serbia, Greeee, Syria, Arabia ali mulie impraeti dubie etaim and harge usu illi deserting them Beenus the nations are bitterto finii thei extrax agant opes uni euhsed the turn round upon the Power hieli for the time is the least
strichen an seem the StronzeSt. Velave gained nothingitu selves to the detrimento any one of these nations On the Contrary, ehave done ait, eun to hel them in men arms, and money. Our sole offenee is that, Williot be auqe Veiannot-do more inii, resti eclo follo v them in aggressive and impossit)le adventures Italy alis onus to eurb the Seri, and the Greelis. Serbs and Greelis ali on iis to resis the aggression os Italy.
Inder the impulse of Wilson the old an os the
ment Change-and what is possibi one monili is impossibi the next. In allisur long history there never vas a time hen themo ernments of Britain eresa ed illi uel a se os dilemmas. At home andubroad the are beset illi ories to embar on polietes
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thos of the baser party Pres in America. Os what ean the Republic complain Θ When a broh out it stood officiatly not to benevolently neutral, grumblin about maritime right reeognised by nations for centuries and praelised os late by . S. A. Veledepted the leadis thei Presidenti heni cameo 'er, asci he were President of the nite States os Europe. e oined in illi his tremendous schemessor re-organi sing the worid. Was it foris to as himio prove that he represented his nationi hat would have happened in ve had sald-Bring ove senators of
Sentin your eountry Θ O mahetur Iristi troubie an Amerieun injur is an utrageous desane os nationalindependende. What in vestrea ted as a Britisti injurythe oppression of their coloured citigens and urJapanes allies oris ali ho hoos torarint aleohol. Theriristi problem is a struggle belween tW races andi vo religions, no in Britain, but in Ireland as inueha domestic question a that et veen Democrat and Republicans in the States.
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A Dei translation in verse of Lucretius hicli has just rea hed me Lucretius On thematureis hin f,
b Si Rober Allison Arthuri. Humphreys, 19193-turned in thoughis again to the grea Roman poet,
who in the liu id times of the old Republio meditatedon the worid an on Man. It is a book o stud inourio quite dissimila days. An Latine re-read Moriey' stirring hapter in his Necollections Vol. II., p. 113-130, hichie alis o Easter Digression disquisition on the Lucretia theor os Liteand Death. iter sonae telling passages frona aneientun modern writers, revives his memories of Lucretius ' ; and a fascinating stud in eriticism Dis. He egin by quotin various estimates an translations of the poet, and what has been sal of him by Dryden, Polignae, Voltatre, Lamurtine, Maeaulay, Momnisen, Goetheri and the Morte gives his his Ownide of the Pessimismi Lucretius Warmi praising the rilliant Chapte IV., hicli . . achail devotes to this poet in that mos maffert os alliand-hooks his Latiniit eruture. Si Robert Allison, o Trinit College, Cambridge, alaead known by his translations o Plautus and of Cicero, has no put the 7, 400 sine of Lueretius sivbooks into clos and literat blan verse, nearly heepingline forane. It is impossibi to rende Latin hexameter into Englisti pentameter in quit the same
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cite acie lines of Si Roberi s versio of Some
'antion relistio potuit uadere malorum. I. 101. sueti reac desed di sup0rstition es Humana ante eum Iosedo eum vita jaceret In terris oppressa gravi sub religio Quae eaPut a caeli 0gionibus Ostendebat Horribili su r aspectu mortalibus instans, Primum Graius homo mortales tollere contra Est Oculos ausus Primusque Obsister eontra. d. 62-67. Whon human Iifo lay gmvsellingis the round, Dite A sight by Rumrinltim eminess, Who istin bigli 0 hoad rom Beaven, lookω OWn Wit Iowering Ooli then Pst a man o Gree Dare Iis his yes, an dare t face the oe. Augoseunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur Inuu brevi mali mi Itantur asela animantum Et quasi cursores vita lampada tradunt II. 77-79. Somo nations a an Oiliens ane, an mon o aes of mai in ars Ganged, and meli In turn to ther haud the oreti os isse,
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I eleonae a secon an revise edition os r. F. S. Marvin s Centur ο Hope Oxford, ClarendonPress 19203. It is a orthy continuation of he Liuina Past, nox in iis foui th impression, at the Same press The forme book as u ketch of esternProgressio vito 1815 The ne v volumesis a manualo the growthi politicat, sociat, scientisie, and artistic humanity frona 'Valerio to the Great ur 181519 143. dicis, of eoui se only a summar of the leadingideas in thought, and of the de isive evenis hieli madeth unit of the est and the progress of a Common
perialism, illi Socialism, Internationalism, volution, ducation, and Heligion in the sanae spirit i
n ineleenth century a an age of conventionalformulas and contented torpor On the contrary, it
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Sho Vs, ille age roni 181. to 19 14 was inspired by optinaism-at nee sane and instrueted. Pessimismand optimisua re lubet sun abola by the rivolousor the ignorant. To e obsessed eithei by gloom orby ope, Withou knowledge of faeis, is quailyra rong. Humanityris everinei reled illi tremendous dimouities: Dis endou ed with inent ullabi power os recuperation. The ignorant domo se the dangers the poor-heui ted domo feel the liope. The is manis osten fuit os anxiety for the immediate future 'enever loses uitii in ultimate viet ory. He is alWays atone pessimis an optimi Si fora never indei rates
the praetida dimouities hieli obstruet the path fprogress But nil the time e no v that progressinus in the endii evult. Anil in thesilai kestioli hea vatis the certain Dawn of Light.