WAR LITERATURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 28, 3 February 1915, Page 4

WAR LITERATURE.

New hooks about the war and the Kaiser are appearing, in legion already. In fact little else but war fact or war fiction is written about or read nowadays. Austin Harrison’s “The Kaiser’s War” is one of the best, for he has the advantage of having lived for some years in Germany and has studied the polities, aims and ambitions of the ruling party very closely. Wh\ v the English are so fierceley hated he tells us is because: “Our intervention has thwarted the whole German military design. Had we failed Belgium as the Germans counted on, that country would have hardly have struck at Liege. Our ships have swept German commerce from off the seas. Our valiant Expeditionary Army held up the German flanking advance at the crucial moment. The entire western campaign has miscarried, largely owing to our army’s support. These things the Germans will never forgive us. The hatred they bore us before the war will henceforth be doubled. We must prepare now to meet the full venom of German rancour on the field of battle, and in political life. No greater mistake could be made than to assume that this war will he terminated by ordinary paper treaties and conventions by conferences of so-called distinguished ambassadors with the usual lack of results either to the victor or the vanquished. This war will be the most terrible in all history, and the most fiercely disputed. No parchment documents can settle it. The problem is not one of statesmanship or kings. As a racial movement it will only be ended with the military destruction of that race crippled of its power for evil. Any other view is misleading. . . In the struggle

either we go down or the Germans. We are tire enemy the Germans seek to destroy. Either they succeed or we as ruthlessly destroy them.”