IN a very readable and interesting little book of about three hundred pages Mr. Dampier Whetham has made a contribution of considerable value to the literature called forth by the present world-shaking war. With clear insight and breadth of information he deals with the new conditions of life which have been created for the Empire, the nation, and the citizen by the gigantic Teuton conspiracy to grasp world-empire for the Hohenzollern dynasty and the crowd of adventurers and militarists by whom it is supported. The defeat of this nefarious project has cost and will still cost the great liberty-loving democracies of the world incalculable sacrifices in life and treasure. All that is most precious in human life is, however, at stake, and hence the work of crushing Prussian militarism must be done now, and done so effectively that it will never raise its brutal dragon-head again. The War and the Nation: A Study in Constructive Politics. By W. C. D. Whetham. Pp. viii + 312. (London: John Murray, 1917.) Price 6s. net.