1 JULY 1916, page 23

Books.

GERMANS AND OTHERS ON GERMANS.* LA FONTAINE has familiarized the world with the exceptions taken by. the lion to the portrait of himself drawn by man. Only a lion, he I thought,......

A. R. T.

(Killed by a Sniper.) How can we mourn or weep for one so bright ? Spending himself so gladly for the Cause. Shot by a sniper's bullet in the night, "Doing his bit" without a......

Poetry.

PEACE TALK IN A HOSPITAL. "SHOULD peace be sought ? " I asked, and with fine scorn The mother said, "Two of my sons were slain On Loos's front, and this my youngest-born Counts......