Punch/Volume 147/Issue 3833/Some Literary War-Notes
Messrs. Harrap have just brought out William the Silent. This is not a biography of the Kaiser.
Nor is The Hound of Heaven, a new edition of which is announced by Messrs. Chatto and Windus.
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.
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.
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!"
The War is responsible for a splendid boom in the study of geography. An English lady who visited some fo 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.
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.