SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
Welke in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.] The National Review for August contains a highly interesting "Retrospect and Reminiscence" by Mr. Masse, who says that as on Saturday, August 1st, 1914, the Cabinet was reported to be "wobbling "on the question of helping France, he and some Merida, including Sir Henry Wilson, persuaded the Unionist leaders to meet at Lansdowne House and impart some moral stimulus to the Govern- ment. Mr. Manse says that Mr. Churchill was the only Minister who was doing his duty, and that the Ministers who were inclined to help France were in a minority at that fateful moment. Mr'. Boner Law's letter, which reached the Cabinet at noon on Sunday, made Mr. Asquith's mind up for him, according to Mr. Masse, and enabled the Prime Minister to bring most of his colleagues round to the same point of view. "By the afternoon France had received her first definite assurance of British support—in the shape of our Navy." Germany had declared war on France and Russia the day before. And yet the deluded enemy peoples have been taught that we deliberately made the war!
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