Senile. By Cicely Hamilton.. (W. Collins, Sons, and Co. 8s.
8d. net.)—Miss Hamilton saw Senile three months after the battle of the Marne. The Germans had spent a week in the town before the battle, and, before retreating, had deliberately wrecked part of it, for no military purpose whatever but out of sheer spite. They shot the Mayor and other hostages because French patrols in the outskirts resisted the invaders. They drove women and children before their advance-guard down the road out of Sardis, to shelter themselves from French bullets. Miss Hamilton does well to recall these horrors quietly and soberly, because the enemy is still as bar- barous as ho was in 1914, and must be brought to account for his many crimes. Her description of the untouched portion of the fine and historic little town is of great interest, but her narrative of the German outrages, illustrated with photographs, is the chief feature of the book.
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