1 AUGUST 1914, page 17

Poetry.

PARTY POLITICS. BROAD in the limelight the arena lies, Wherein fanatical opponents meet, A weltering motley crowd, 'mid dust and beat, Mouthing strange shibboleths and......

Books.

THE RUSSIAN CONQUEST.* WHEN the spiritual history of England during the early years of the twentieth century comes to be written, a very powerful influence in its development......

German Character And English Policy.•

THE English reader is indebted to Miss Wylie for a very enlightening book. Happily, too. it deals with a subject on which enlightenment is very much needed. Germany is only......