"Tun Way or Sacupice."—By pats 4 You. Unruh. Translated by Macartney. Zondon: Knopf, Price, This is a novel with " strange riy. It is probable, indeed that the ordinary veadar of fiction will be more interested in the his tory than in the novel itself. The author, Fritz von Unruh, comes of an aristocratic family, and though intended for a military career, was well known as a dramatist in' Gore many before the war. One of his plays had the distinction of being suppressed by the Crown Prince, while another, produce! by Max Ree Reinhart, had an immense "nuceee de scandate!
An unwilling. 80 Von Unruh was pressed as a propagandist. Tu 1916, the German high command ordered him to write w novel which should spur on the failing troops to take Vere dun—a peculiar method of paganda which the British high command do not seem to have cone sidered. The result was "The Way of Sacrifice"—one of the most hor rible attacks on modern warfare that have ever been written. Von Unruh was regarded as 1 traitor, and but for the position of his family would probably" have Geen shot. Instead, he was ofieinlly declared insane,
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