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The Peremptory Review opens with Lord CURZON’S well-reasoned appeal to Labour to relinquish its attitude of criticism and trust the powers that be.  Other notable articles deal with the possible effect of woman’s franchise on the cult of Pekinese spaniels, the case pro and con. for a tunnel under St. George’s Channel, and the philosophy of E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM.  Mr. HARRY DE WINDT writes of “Serbia as I Knew It.”  A spirited attack on the MINISTER of MUNITIONS by the Editor of The Morning Post brings an excellent number to a close.

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Backwood’s is, as usual, strong in the martial element, and is further proof that in the present conflict there is no excluding rivalry between pen and sword, but plenty of room for both.  The article wittily entitled, “Mess-up-otamia” should be read by everyone who is not tired of that theme.  The trenchant author of “Reflections without Rancour” displays his customary vigilance as a censor of betes noires, not sparing the whip even when some of the animals are dead.

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In the ever iconoclastic and live Gnashing All Review Mr. Smacksy is, as usual, at his most vigorous.  Among the statesmen who come in for his attacks are Mr. ASQUITH and Lord HALDANE, both of whom are probably by now quite inured to his blows.  Nothing could be more amusing than the renewed play which is made with the phrase, “spiritual home.”  Mr. Smacksy has also something to say to members of what might be called his own Party.  Other articles deal with “The Psychology of the Pacifist,” a trenchant exposure; “The Teeth of American Presidents,” which contains a number of curious statistics; “The Film and the Future,” by Viscount CHAPLIN; “The Honours List,” in which the anonymous writer makes the revolutionary suggestion that the KING’S birthday should in future be marked by the withdrawal of old titles instead of the conferring of new.  Mr. HARRY DE WINDT descries “Roumania as I Knew It”; “A Suggestion for the Settlement of the Irish Problem” is offered by Mr. GINNELL, M.P.; and Mr. C.B.  COCHRAN utters a disinterested plea for “The Small Theatre.”

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The Jinglish Review, also famous for the activity of its fighting editor, has no fewer than four articles from his pen, of which the least negligible is perhaps that of “The Partition of Europe after the War.”  The others deal with “The Real Germany,” “Sunday Journalism as a World Asset,” and “HORATIO BOTTOMLEY the Prophet.”  Other contributions in a varied number include a series of votive verses to Mr. EDWARD MARSH, C.B., by a band of Georgian poets, on the occasion of his resumption of his duties as private secretary to Mr. WINSTON CHURCHILL.  A charming study of leprosy, translated from the Russian of Lugubriski, brings the number to a close.