28 DECEMBER 1918, Page 19

The New Europe. Vol. VIII. (Constable. 10s. Od. net.)—The new

volume of this lively and instructive weekly covers the period from July 18th to October 10th last. It is highly interesting to recall the enemy's diplomatic manceuvres during those critical months, and to observe how Germany and her allies played their game of bluff to the very last, for the benefit of the credulous at home and abroad. Early in July, for example, a writer in the Pester Lloyd solemnly asserted that the Allies could not defeat Austria in ten years. The New Europe's catholicity requires it to print highly controversial articles in regard to some of the smaller nationalities, but it is just as well that the public should be informed of the rival claims which it is now the business of the Allied Governments to reconcile.