pe contains some
very pleasant notes, both of sentiment and humour, but is altogether too
thin for variations upon so tremendous a motive as she has chosen. I
express, of course, only my personal feeling; but I am certain that
unless a book can rise to the magnitude of the War it had best leave it
alone. Still it may well be that others will find interest, and even
consolation, in these little papers. They have at least the charm of
simplicity, and are obviously the products of a gentle and sympathetic
nature. Thus, Miss ORCHARD can still see the pathos of the German
private. Well, well.

* * * * *

[Illustration: "Look, dear--isn't that good? 'Will you march too, or
wait till March the Second'?"]

* * * * *

A PIOUS HOPE.

[Suggested by an interview between M. SAZONOFF and Mr. HAROLD BEGBIE in
_The Daily Chronicle_.]

The Russian statesman, HAROLD BEGBIE thinks,
Is a good egg and not a subtle Sphinx;
Some day perhaps he will a better egg be
And tell us frankly what he thought of BEGBIE.

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