19 OCTOBER 1918, Page 11

"MONSTR1JM ANCEPS."

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—That Germany, while grovelling for peace, should try to beat her record for atrocity presents a problem for those to whom diabolic psychology is not too nauseous a study. Is it because its two heads (the political and military) are no longer under a common control that the obscene monster, wounded and at bay, can cringe, writhe, wriggle, and squeal without stinting to scratch, bite, sting, and stink ? May the coup de grace soon end the foul

drama of its death-throes.—I am, Sir, &c., Pezzivo.