BELGIUM UNDER THE GERMAN SWORD. [To san Eamon or vu
"Sneer zoz."3 SIR,—As the effects of German propaganda in Italy have been discussed in the English Press, you will, perhaps, allow me to quote a few lines from a book which is selling by thousands, It Biagio sotto la Spada Tedesca, by Eric H. Gray (who is Italian in spite of his English-sounding name). Speaking of Professor Oncken'a Germania o Inghaterra, the author says :— "E una dells innunseri pubblicasioni tedesche the hazuso inondato l'Italia au indicazioni spesso inopportune dei censolati tedeschi. Tall pubblicazioni—oso dirlo agli amid tedeschi—eon in lore insistenza, con In lore inverosimiglianza, e eon In lore ingenniti ottengono precisamente lo seopo opposto a quello cm tendono. La Svizzera invasa ands' essa da queeta mares letteraria ha protestato, ritenendola nn attentato ells sus neutralitn morale."
That sums up the whole matter. Signor Gray's excellent though painful account of Belgium under the German. Sword should be read together with Fighting in Flanders, by Mr. Alexander Powell, which was reviewed recently in your columns. Like the author of that work, Signor Gray went to Belgium from a neutral country and with an open mind. What his state of mind was when he returned his book
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