. Review of reviews and world's work. rmany are synchro-nizing their operations in widely separatedhelds and exerting an e\ en and steady pres-sure on all fronts. We have, then, seen the end of the sum-mer campaign. It was on June 4 that Rus-sia struck her /jrst blow in Volhynia. Sincethat time there has been a steady rise inAllied prospects; tliere have been great vic-tories in Galicia ; material advantages scoredin Picardy and north of Trieste; there hasbeen a decline in German stock which cannotbe mistaken, and an ever-widening convic-tion that the end of the war will be reachedon German so


. Review of reviews and world's work. rmany are synchro-nizing their operations in widely separatedhelds and exerting an e\ en and steady pres-sure on all fronts. We have, then, seen the end of the sum-mer campaign. It was on June 4 that Rus-sia struck her /jrst blow in Volhynia. Sincethat time there has been a steady rise inAllied prospects; tliere have been great vic-tories in Galicia ; material advantages scoredin Picardy and north of Trieste; there hasbeen a decline in German stock which cannotbe mistaken, and an ever-widening convic-tion that the end of the war will be reachedon German soil. But I desire to say here,as I have said elsewhere, that I do not be-lieve that Mich a \ ictftry c;in be won beforethe summer of IMH; and I think the degreeto which (lermany is exhausted has beengr(»ssly exaggerated in rec<Tit \\e<ks. Almosttwo \ears lay iirtween (Jettysburg and Ap-pomattox, and it seems unlikely that a short-er distance will separate Verdun from the/inal German surrender. 408 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OE REVIEWS. TRANSPORTING RAILS FOR THE NEW ROAD


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