Mr. G. F. Hill, the Keeper of the Coins at
the British Museum, was happily inspired in collecting the German medals struck during the war, and in describing them in a pamphlet. Some of these medals have now been reproduced on postcards for the Museum by the Oxford University Press (le. the packet of fifteen). They include the notorious ' Lusitania ' medal—of which the German authorities denied the existence because it created so unfavourable an impression in America—and the Verdun medal, representing the Crown Prince on horseback and a German wrestler defeating a Frenchman, which was a premature celebration of the victory on which Germany counted too confidently. There is also an amusing medal-caricature of Lord Northcliffe sharpening his propagandist quill, while on the reverse the Devil feeds the blazing globe with copies of the Times and Daily Mail. We shall never understand the mind of the Germane. The literally brazen impudence of the
Lusitania ' medal, giving permanent form to the ghoulish delight which the Germans took in the sinking of an unarmed liner and the drowning of a thousand innocent civilians, stamps the nation which produced it as aliens whose Knitter is that of Thor and not of Christ.
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