tor to the Western Front:
things seen and heard, well calculated (were this needed) to stiffen the
resolution of the great people to whom her letters are really written.
_England's Effort_ was, I understand, translated into many tongues (with
results that can hardly fail of being enormously valuable); _Towards the
Goal_ should certainly receive the same treatment of which it is well
worthy.

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Mr. WILLIAM HARBUTT DAWSON, in his _After War Problems_ (ALLEN AND
UNWIN), covers, under the four headings, Empire and Citizenship, Natural
Efficiency, Social Reform, and National Finance and Taxation,
bewilderingly wide ground, and drives a perhaps rather mandarinish team
of contributors. Lord HALDANE, for instance, is no longer in the real
van of educational endeavour, and is it wholly insignificant that his
chapter on Education appears in the section headed National Efficiency
rather than in that of Social Reform? It ought not to be difficult to
give, in the light of these last years, a wider interpretation to
Patriotism than that expressed by Lord MEATH on lines familiar to his
public. Sir WILLIAM CHANCE has seen no new sign in the skies in relation
to the problem of poverty. Sir BENJAMIN BROWNE, whose death all those
interested in the settlement of the Capital-Labour quarrel must deplore,
as for all his uncompromising individualism he brought to it a rare
breadth of view, says much that is of real value, but does not refrain
from appealing to the fact that the mutual confidence of man and officer
in battle is a proof of the possibility of a similar confidence in the
workshop. That confidence must, and can, we dare to believe, eventually
be established. But the men don't go over the top to put money in the
Colonel's pocket, and little good is done by exploiting these loose
analogies and putting on a too easy air of optimism in the face of
desperately serious and complex problems. But enough of fault-finding,
which is a poor reward for the serious and generous labours of
public-spirited men and women. After all, what one reader calls timidity
of outlook another may care to praise as prudence. Here you will find an
abundance of safe analysis, wise comment and constructive suggestion
from a galaxy of accredited authorities.

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In the early chapters of Mr. WILLIAM HEWLETT'S new story, _The
Plot-Maker_ (DUCKWORTH), we are introduced to a popular and