Pole and Czech in Silesia. By James A. Roy. (Lane.
66. net.)—Captain Roy was attached to the Allied Commission in Teschen. His lively little book merely records his own impressions of Prague, Vienna, Cracow, Warsaw, and Upper Silesia, but it illustrates very clearly the chaos of racial animosity and economic disturbance in Central Europe. The feud between Czechs and Poles over Teschen and the quarrels among the Poles themselves are pitiful indeed. The American delegate on the Commission—a genial Middle Westerner—explained the Czech raid on 'Aachen thus : " Wa'al, you see, it's like this. Them Dooks—meaning the Czechs—took and waltzed the other boys right back to the Vistula, and when they were tired, they quit foolin' and sat down and waited till we came along to put things right for them again." An Austrian Count told Captain Roy that the Austrian gentry were grateful to the British for facilitating the escape of the ex-Emperor Karl. " No other nation," he said, "would have thought of such a thing except the English."
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