THE NATIONAL.
Professor Lyde is given the place of honour with an article on" German Trade or World Security ? " calling in ethnology of a kind to prove that the bullet-headed Prussians -are incurably evil and urging that a prosperous Germany, with its great chemical factories to produce poison-gas, would be . a permanent source of danger. Professor Lyde is a learned geographer, but an unsafe guide in international policy. Mr. Maxse denounces Mr. Asquith in good 'set terms under the guise of a review of Mr. Asquith's book on the genesis of the War. Mr. J. A. Strahan recalls the career of "The Founder .of the Athenaeum," the much abused J. W. Croker, who was -by no means such a fool or a knave as Macaulay pretended. Mr. Edgar Preston, in "English Slang Through French Eyes," gives an amusing account of a French dictionary of English slang, and Miss McKane describes pleasantly her. recent tour in America as a member of the British lawn tennis team.
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