German Prisoners, Back to Lon don, Four Rye Sheaves, and Our British Dead, appeared originally in The Spectator The Carrion Crow in The Nation. To the respective Editors of these reviews I would return my thanks; in the first instance for the hospitality of their pages thus extended, and further for the kind permission they have so readily granted me to republish these pieces here. I have to acknowledge a similar courtesy on the part of Sir Frederick Treves, Bt., whose compila tion, Made in the Trenches, published on behalf of the Star and Garter Endowment Fund, included A Shake speare Tercentenary, and St. Patrick's Day in the Mornin'