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Pan-Islam, by G. Wyman Bury (12mo, 212 pages, 1 map; Macmillan), is an unpretentious attempt to explain the ways of the Moslem world to that suburban electorate in whose hands the government of the British Empire, with the aid and consent of the permanent under-secretaries in the Foreign Office, ultimately rests. The Carnegie Peace Commission should send the last chapter, A Plea for Tolerance, to every missionary organization.

Armenia and the Armenians, by Kevork Aslan (12mo, 138 pages; Macmillan), presents in condensed form the history of the Armenians from earliest times down to 1914. The work is translated from the original French by Pierre Crabites, whose Introduction is an impassioned plea for Armenian independence.

Patrons of Democracy, by Dallas Lore Sharp (16mo, 57 pages; Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston), criticizes private and vocational schools as destructive of democracy, and urges a uniform national public school system as the educational basis for "living together." This essay had the distinction of being publicly laughed at by Graham Wallas; but in so far as we differentiate our educational courses by reference to pecuniary rather than to biological differences, Mr. Sharp's polemic against any kind of differentiation should be helpful in restoring our social equipoise.

Europe in the Melting Pot, by Dr. R. W. Seton-Watson (12mo, 400 pages, 7 maps; Macmillan), is his latest book on the problems of the European settlement. Partly written before the Armistice, it expresses the principles gnd prejudices of The New Europe for "integral victory" against Bolshevism, for the league against imperialism—and is especially well informed, competent, and obstinate in dealing with Southern Europe.

Local Government in Ancient India, by Radhakumud Mookerji (8vo, 229 pages; Oxford University Press), widens our Western European perspective of the guild system and municipal institutions by demonstrating the existence of the same modes of associative life at the Vedic headwaters of Hindu civilization. A book to place alongside Venkatarama Ayyar's Townplanning in Ancient Dekkan.