SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does. not necessarilil preclude subsequent review.] Seren rears at the Prus&ian Court. By Edith Keen. (Eveleigh Nash. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Keen was, for seven years up to the outbreak of war, in the service of the Princess Frederick Leopold of Prussia; sister of the German Empress. and lived at Potsdam. Her account of the life in a German Royal household is readable, and her unpretentious gossip about the Kaiser is amusing. She says that the All-Highest is a creature of moods, taking violent dislikes to particular colours so that his rooms have to be continually redecorated, or smoking hard because he is told that it is bad for him, or giving way in complete solitude to violent fits of depression. She relates anecdotes of his discourtesy to guests, in which of course he upholds the tradition of Frederick the Great, and of his fitful generosity and meanness. Miss Keen reports that the Prince, her employer, read Punch solemnly through every week. In other respects he seems to have been a dull person.
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