cies. Fiscuen's War."—By Henrietta Leslie, Published by Mesnrs,. Jar roids, London.
This book cannot be classed as a "war novel" although it deals with an aspect of the last war which escaped the attention of those many morbid souls who delighted dilating upon the blood relation of filth to patriotism. It tells how the Great War affected Janet Fischer ud Carl, her husband—she Engish, and' he technically, German, Travelling in Germany on the fatal fourth of August, Carl, caught the swirl of sticky sentimentality then sweeping over Europe, decided to stay there and to fight for the "Fatherland." Janet returned' to London to face the agony of ation from the husband she adored only to find that their son, John, as patriotic as his father, had joined the English forees. Son is fighting father, and father son. The resultant situation Miss Leslie interprets as a poignant study in Recent Additions to the
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