ch could by any possibility affect the
fate of others less fortunate than I. Accordingly I sent my manuscript
to the _Evening Standard_, which accepted it, and published the first
couple of pages. Then, in deference to the wishes of people whose
relations were still at "Altheim" (having been sent back from
Giessen), I stopped my diary. However, in view of the daily
revelations in the Press as regards prisoners in Germany, I have come,
after seven months, to the conclusion that nothing I can say will in
any degree make the condition of prisoners there worse. Meanwhile it
is of supreme interest to compare the opinions and conduct of Germans
at the beginning of the war with what they express and observe now. My
journal is simply a record made each day of my detention, and although
it has no pretension to being literature, it is at least a truthful
picture of the state of things as we in Altheim saw them at the
beginning of the war. For obvious reasons the place of detention has
been given a fictitious name.

HARRIET J. JEPHSON.

CONTENTS

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A WAR-TIME JOURNAL 11

GERMAN TRAVEL NOTES:

"TAKIN' NOTES" 67

OF SOME FELLOW TRAVELLERS AND THE CATHEDRAL OF MAINZ 76

SCHLANGENBAD 84

LIEBENSTEIN 90

TREVES 96

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

ENGLISCHE KRIEGSFUeHRUNG _Frontispiece_
(_How the Englishman makes war._)

ENGLAND FINDET HILFSTRUPPEN
(_England finds troops to help her._)

I. IN KANADA 17
(_Behold the German idea of a Canadian._)

II. IN POLYNESIEN 33
(_The German idea of an Australian._)

III. NUR IN LONDON NICHT 49
_But not in London!_

_These illustrations are reproduced from German newspapers._

A WAR-TIME JOURNAL:
GERMANY, 1914

VILLA BUCHHOLZ, ALTHEIM, _August 1st._--Last night a herald went round
the town and roused every