THE NEW MAGAZINES.
The National Review.
Mr. Churchill's book on the War is criticized from two points of view. Lord Selborne politely suggests that Mr. Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty took too much upon himself and disregarded his Board much as Mr. Lloyd George disregarded his Cabinet. Sir Berkeley Milne, who has a just grievance, deals with Mr. Churchill's version of the escape of the Goeben ' in the first week of the War, and complains of Mr. Churchill's use of secret documents " freely to criticize His Majesty's officers in order to exculpate himself and his department " as a breach of the honourable traditions of our public service. Professor Pelham Edgar writes pleasantly and temperately on " The United States in Fact and Fiction," with reference to Dickens, Henry James, Mr. Wells and Mr. Chesterton. Major Newman Craig gives a hopeful account of " Austria Revisited," and Mr. Frederic Whyte describes in an agreeable but superficial article " French Political Leaders of To-Day." We may draw attention also to Mr. C. H. Bretherton's lucid and emphatic statement of " Ulster's Case for Partition."
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