ABOUT BOOK

Miss Wylie makes use of much of the usual stock-in-trade of the writer of war fiction, wome of which dates from pre-ware days. Child suicide, barrack-room brutality, duelling, Belgian atrocities, methods of re-population, all the outward manifestations of the spiritual poverty of Germany, are shown as the results of the Prussian System. But in spite of this rather thread-bare journalistic material the story has value on account of the picture it gives of the charm and simplicity of German home life, which any one who has lived in German must recognize.