POLITICS.
The German Revolution and After. By Heinrich StrObel. (Jarrolds. 12s. 6d. net.)
IIerr Strobel's narrative of the German Revolution ought to be very encouraging to those who lie awake at night assuming that the path of revolutionaries is easy. His story is one long complaint of the feebleness and muddle- hcadedness of his particular revolutionary friends. His main attack is upon the Majority Socialists. He bitterly reflects upon the ease with which in 1914 they fell victims to the popular cry that the war was for Germany a defensive war. We mnnot find any new facts in this book, though it is a coherent and interesting piece of writing from Herr Strobel's particular point of view. His view is that the Minority Socialists engineered the revolution ; that the Majority Socialists have since taken the credit for it ; and that in the main the revolution has helped the industrial magnates more than anybody else. He and his political friends were less extreme than the Spartacists, whom he blames for their excesses only less than he blames the smug and complaisant Majority Socialists. Spartacists and Bolsheviks, he complains, made it only too easy for the military party to raise popular feeling against revolutionary ideas in general. On the whole, he is despondent about the immediate outlook for Social Democracy In Germany, and he exhorts-Socialists of all shades of thought to close their ranks in opposition to the industrial magnates and the militarists.
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