19 AUGUST 1916, Page 17

Germany and Spain : the Views of a Spanish Catholic.

By Don Francisco Melgar. Translated by T. Okey. (T. Fisher Unwin. Is. 6d. net.)—This is an eloquent protest by one of the oldest and most respected members of the Carlist Party against the pro-German attitude of the Carlist Press in Spain. Don Francisco, the friend and farmer tutor of Don Jaime, the Carlist chief, definitely asserts that Don Jaime is held as a prisoner at Frohsdorf, although when he entered Austria after the outbreak of war he had the Emperor's word of honour that he should not be molested in any way. The Carlist journals have suppressed their leader's complaints. The Emperor's word, as the author says, is worth no more than Belgium's " scrap of paper."