July 2.
It is perhaps because we are getting further away from the war that the world is now bei presented with stories about it which convey a far greater sense of reality and truthfulness than anything previously published. The books written immediately after the Armistice will not sur vive and do not deserve to do so. Some of them were frank propaganda, the product of politicians und commanders seeking to justify themselves. The no-vols and memoirs were evidently preoccupied with the war as a dramatic evident and imbued with that artificiality, one migh€ almost say hysteria, inseparable from the fearful upheaval just experienced and which could be felt in every phase of life, public and private. Very differen? are the three studies—two of them are plays, though certainly> not of the ordin: which are now making a stir in, all countries. It is an interesting coincidence that they are Yespectively by an Englishman, 'a Frenchman and a German;
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.