The public, it is said, will no longer read war hooks, but it will have to read this one, for this is a book apart (says the "Daily Telegraph"), Nothing yet published gives so clear and honest a picture German mentality; the whole course of the German national tem: perament during the war is traced' with simple sincerity; the soul of Germany is laid bare. And the exposure is achieved without the slightest pretension, through the medium of a diary kept, if not from day to day, at least from week to during the entire period of hostilities. Zhe writer has no literary pose, and the diary was not originally intended for publication. But this, of course, only enhances the value of its testimony. It was written by an English woman married to a German prince, for the information of her English mother at home, and it retails all the idle gossip, the daily hopes and fears, "hich agitated the society world in Berlin, while the high expectations of German aggression were steadily sinking to their close. Nothing like it has yet appeared; for once we are confronted with a book which (to use a much-abused term) may' fairly be described as "a genuine revelation." These pages will do more than all the protestations and apologies of German statesmen and generals to explain the Teuton temperament to the world at large.
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