and he has therefore chosen a set of
Spanish instruction books as what he would like best.

The game still continues. Other well-known scientific firms in
Berlin have been approached and interested in an effort to
provide material for scientific work in Ruhleben, and we have
received a request from Dr. Higgins to follow up an effort he is
making to provide similar assistance for some men at Knockaloe,
about whom he has written to various University professors and
business friends in England. Herr H. has also sent us a list of
nine firms whose principals he is acquainted with, to see if
they also will help in like manner.

A spectroscope I believe, is an instrument which takes a ray of
light and proceeds to spread it abroad. A fine instrument!

W.R.H.

The ray of light is spread by reprisals of good. When the nephew of a
friend of mine was let out from Ruhleben on a fortnight's leave, and
received "overwhelming kindness" from his German hosts, what was it that
so specially drew out their kindness? The fact that their own son,
interned in this country, has been befriended here. (P. 105.)

A BABY CASE VISITOR.

Yet, in spite of all the efforts of sympathy, suffering, in camp and
out, grows ever greater as the war continues. Here are two short stories
of February, 1915, as reported to the Committee on this side. If, for a
moment we can forget our passions, the sufferings of these, our
fellows, must touch our hearts. Nearly four more years have passed and
we know that greater loneliness and sorrow must have come to these
hearts, as to so many more.

Our first call is in a horrid little street off Tottenham Court
Road. Four knocks on a very shaky door brings Bertha, the wife
of a German, a ships' cook, who has never been long enough on
shore to become a naturalised Englishman. Bertha was a servant
for many years before she married, and had collected many
precious possessions, and she and Friedrich had a comfortable
home with plenty of furniture and full of all the useless and
hideous knicknack which apparently make so many people happy.
Only a few remain, for nearly all have "had to go"--the term we
know so well to mean that they are now in pawn, and that it will
probably never be possible to redeem them. When first we visited
them they were living in a basement room w