IMPORTANT FORTHCOMING BOOKS
The Peace Conference
By Dr. E. J. DILLON
Author of “The Eclipse of Russia” etc.
In one large handsome volume, 21s. net.
Dr. Dillon has been for so many years in the closest touch with the inmost circles of European politics that his opportunities for collecting material for the work which bears this comprehensive title have been unrivalled. His two large volumes cover all the essential points of the vast conference and form a work which should be a permanent history of the events of these world shaking months. Dr. Dillon gives personal impressions of the leading delegates with special reference to their individual fitness to conduct their parts in the negotiation for a world peace settlement. He gives a vast amount of hitherto unpublished information on the growth and development of the causes of dissension among the Associated Powers and the methods taken to arrange a settlement of these. He deals with the sincerity of the various national delegations in discussing the terms of a peace on an ideal basis as distinct from a peace on the old bases where national claims were paramount. He has much of supreme interest to say about the Italian situation, and the claims of America as regards the Monroe doctrine and as regards her German-American population. He discusses the probability of the permanence of the League of Nations, and touches with deft certainty on the indications and possibilities of the Japanese and Chinese questions. A most valuable and interesting part of the book is the discussion of the “Fourteen” points as a basis for Peace, and their effect on the imperfectly developed and the undeveloped races and an examination of them from the politico-religious point of view. Other interesting chapters deal with the sources of information of which Dr. Dillon was able to make use, and the reception accorded this special information by the high parties in Paris. Dr. Dillon also has much of surpassing interest to tell of the inner history of the Peace Conference and the influences which affected the speed and trend of the settlement.
It does not seem too much to claim that this work is unique in its source and in the variety of reliable information which is gathered into its covers. It should be studied by every thinking reader who wishes to know what really happened at Paris during those fateful months when the peace of the world was being settled, we hope for all time.
Memories of an Old Etonian—1860-1912
By GEORGE GREVILLE
Author of “Society Recollections in Paris and Vienna,” and “More Society Recollections.”