22 MARCH 1919, Page 20
German Days. By a Polish Girl. (J. Murray. 7s. 6d.
net.)ā The author, a Polish Jewess born at Posen, describes in this readable book her experiences at various Prussian schools, ending with a finishing school in Berlin. She writes temperately, and her indictment of the relentless Prussian school system is all the more effective on that account. It is not easy for English readers to imagine the lengths to which the Prussian Govern. ment carriedāand perhaps still carriesāits autocratic and nationalist propaganda in the schools. The author as a Pole and as a Jewess suffered doubly, for, as she says, the old Prussian ruling class was the chief fomenter of anti-Semitism. Her pictures of social life in Prussia are by no means overdrawss, unlovely as they are.
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