MESSRS. HARRAP have just brought out _William the Silent_. This is not a
biography of the KAISER.
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Nor is _The Hound of Heaven_, a new edition of which is announced by
Messrs. CHATTO AND WINDUS.
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Mr. EDWARD CRESSY'S _Discoveries and Inventions of the Twentieth
Century_ makes no mention, curiously enough, of the WOLFF Bureau. We
look in vain, too, among the Yuletide publications for a book of Fairy
Tales by WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN. This does not speak well for the
alertness of our publishers.
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Messrs. JACK, we see, have produced a _Life of Nelson_. It is now, we
consider, up to Messrs. NELSON to produce a volume with some such title
as _We All Love Jack_.
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At last the Germans are reported to have scored a little success in the
United States. An American coon is said to have been so much impressed
by the achievements of the Germans that he has sent a song to the
KAISER, the opening words of which are "My Hunny!"
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The War is responsible for a splendid boom in the study of geography. An
English lady who visited some of the Belgian wounded at a certain London
hospital the other day asked one of them where he was hit, and on
receiving the reply, "_Au pied_," is said to have spent hours trying to
find the place on the map.
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Which reminds us that, owing to the new names which the various
belligerents are giving to towns which they have conquered (like
Lemberg) or temporarily occupied (like Ostend), several map-makers are
reported to be suffering from nervous breakdown.
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The Kaiser's Thanks.
"The Archbishop of York and Germany."
_Heading in "Edinburgh Evening Despatch."_
Other pluralists, like the Bishop of SODOR AND MAN, are not at all
jealous, nor are we at all surprised.
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"They drank the full-flavoured soup with scarcely a sound."--_The
Story-Teller._
Another example of true British refinement.
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