24 OCTOBER 1914, Page 24

Mr. Georges la Barre is an English artist of Belgian

origin, who was commissioned by the Graphic to make sketches of the fighting in Belgium. He describes his " crowded fort- night" with obvious truthfulness in the little book which he calls Captive of the Kaiser in Belgium. (Mills and Boon, Is. net). He was personally well treated by the Germans, who took him prisoner after the fall of Namur; but the very absence of sensationalism or prejudice makes his plain state- ment of the devastation of the country more impressive.