The enterprise of The Times in securing the reminiscences of the Kaiser’s American dentist (or gum-architect, as he is called in his native land) has aroused mingled feelings.  But the Kaiser is reported to have stated in no ambiguous terms that if, after the War, any Americans are to be given access to him, from Ambassadors downwards, they must be able neither to read nor write. The Times is also responsible for the headline:  “The Archangel Landing.”  There was a rumour of something of this kind after Mons, but this is apparently official.

One prominent effect of the War has been to make two Propagandist Departments flourish where none grew before, and it is to be feared that the reflection on the industry of our new officials implied in the picture on the previous page is not without foundation.

War has not only stimulated the composition, but the perusal of poetry, especially among women: 

  When the Armageddon diet
  Makes Priscilla feel unquiet,
  She prescribes herself (from Pope)
  An acidulated trope.

  When the lard-hunt ruffles Rose
  Wordsworth lulls her to repose,
  While a snippet from the “Swan”
  Stops the jam-yearn of Yvonne.

  When the man-slump makes her fretty
  Susie takes to D. Rossetti,
  Though her sister Arabella
  Rather fancies Wilcox (Ella).

  When Evangelina swoons
  At the sound of the maroons,
  Mrs. Hemans comes in handy
  As a substitute for brandy.

  And when Auntie heard by chance
  That the Curate was in France,
  Browning’s enigmatic lyrics
  Helped to save her from hysterics.

September, 1918.

Since July 15th, when the Kaiser mounted a high observation post to watch the launching of the offensive which was to achieve his crowning victory, but proved the prelude of the German collapse, the conflict has raged continuously and with uninterrupted success for the Allied Armies.  The Kaiser Battle has become the Battle of Liberation.  The French bore the initial burden of the attack, but since August 8 “hundreds of thousands of unbeaten Tommies,” to quote the phrase of a French military expert, have entered into action in a succession of attacks started one after the other all the way up to Flanders.  Rawlinson, Home, and Byng have carried on the hammer work begun by Mangin, Gouraud, and Debeney.  Peronne has been recovered, the famous Drocourt-Queant switch-line has been breached, the Americans have flattened out the St. Mihiel salient.  The perfect liaison of British and French and Americans has been a wonderful example of combined effort rendered possible by unity of command.  “Marshal Foch strikes to-day at a new front,” is becoming a standing headline.  And this highly desirable “epidemic of strikes” is not confined to the Western Front.  As Generalissimo of all the Allied Forces the great French Marshal has planned and carried out an ensemble of operations