Italy and the Jugoslavs by E. J.; C. G. WoodhouseReview by: Robert Joseph KernerThe Journal of International Relations, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Apr., 1921), pp. 631-632Published by:Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/29738438 .

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NOTES AND REVIEWS 631

(b) the development of liberal internationalism? Must effective

internationalism be confined to Socialists?

The New Germany stimulated thought. The last chapter on

The Constitution is accompanied by that document in full. A

somewhat incomplete index is furnished.

Donald R. Taft, Wells College.

Italy and the Jugoslavs. By E. J. and C. G. Woodhouse.

Boston, 1920, Richard Badger, The Gorham Press, 394 pp. "This book," so states the preface, "has been written with the

hope of helping in some small degree to improve the quality of

American thinking on international questions and especially on the

Adriatic problem. It is intended to present as much as possible of the material available in this country on the historical back?

ground of this problem and its development during and since the

war" (p. ix). Four chapters of the book are devoted to the his?

torical background down to 1914, and the remaining eight chap? ters are given over to the Adriatic dispute from 1915 to 1919.

The text closes in November, 1919, a year before the Treaty of

Rapallo, thus leaving the problem "unsolved."

The work under review is for the most part a compilation of

speeches, interviews, memoranda, and official and unofficial

documents of one sort or another relating particularly to the

period between 1915 and 1919. These are imbedded often in toto

in the text, such quotations making up almost one-half of the

book. In addition to this, there are documentary appendices

amounting to about fifty pages. The material thus compiled is

taken largely from such easily accessible publications as the New York Times, Current History Magazine, New Europe, Chris?

tian Science Monitor, and a number of well-known propaganda sources.

The chief value of the book is that it collects in convenient form a good deal (but not all) of the more accessible material on

the question. It deals with a subject which bristles with diffi? culties and which requires for first-class historical work not only

years of historical training and research in a bewildering and almost unexplored field, but also a linguistic equipment of unusual

range in order to assure accuracy. The authors do not lay claim to such qualifications. They are wise enough, in most

cases, not to try to separate the wheat from the chaff. They usually prefer to put conflicting views alongside of each other and

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632 notes and reviews

to let the reader judge for himself, so far as he can. A compila? tion of arguments, however, does not make history.

The part of the book which contains the numerous quotations

(chapters five to eight inclusive) is by far the better portion of the

book. On the other hand, the historical chapters (one to four

inclusive) contain errors and statements which should not be found

in a careful work, even if it depended entirely on "material avail?

able in this country." A few typical cases may be mentioned.

The authors imply that Count Aehrenthal must have been alive

in 1913 (p. 22) when we know that he died the year before. On

page 19 there is a statement to this effect: "Italy's open acknowl?

edgment of her partnership in the Triple Alliance was one of the

chief factors which brought about the formation of the Triple Entente." Russia "by the Treaty of San Stefano (March 3,

1878) stipulated for the extension of Montenegro to join Serbia

on the east" (p. 91). The entrusting of "Austria with police duties in Montenegrin waters .... gave the Austrian

commercial fleet a great impetus" (p. 21), although little Monte?

negro has always had an insignificant commerce, and, as the

authors state, "only thirty miles of seaboard." A "Catherine"

was not empress of Russia in 1739 (p. 90), nor did the Serbo

Bulgar war take place in 1884 (p. 56). The Slovenes unfortu?

nately do not make up "the bulk" of the population in Styria,

Carinthia, Trieste, and Istria (p. 58), and it is both confusing and

surprising to read that "The Italians have endeavored to re victual

the Czechoslovak republic in order to gain popularity in Austria"

(176). Robert Joseph Keener,

University of Missouri.

The European Commonwealth: Problems Historical and Diplo? matic. By J. A. R. Marriott. Oxford, The Clarendon

Press, 1919, xi, 370 pp. In spite of the fact that the essays contained in this volume

represent a selection from a larger number which the author con?

tributed to the English quarterlies and monthlies during four years,

they possess unity and consistency. The thread running through them is the evolution of the Nation State and the problem is has

presented to Europe. The Nation State was for several cen?

turies the goal of political ambition but the war raised rather

acutely the question whether it is a type of political organization which is likely to last for a measurable period.

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