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False Witness. By Johannes Jorgensen. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. IRL

net.)—This is the authorized translation of Iflokhe Roland, a plea for martyred Belgium against her oppressors, which has excited the greatest interest in Scandinavia and caused much annoyance in Germany. It is written as a reply, point by point, to the Appeal to the Civilized World which ninety-three German philosophers, to their own eternal discredit, published in the first autumn of the war. Mr. Jer- gensen -has studied the case as presented by both sides, and has been convinced that the Germans lied about their crimes. No clearer or more eloquent condemnation of the German treatment of Belgium has been written than this neutral book, which deterves reading. It is named from- the great bell that hung in the belfry at Ghent,.