World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
_Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, The_, masterpiece of Lieut.
T. Milton Hayes, M.C., 41, 42, 43
Guides, the trustworthiness of, in France, 11
Ham, 14
Hampstead, home, and beauty, 265
Hardy, Mr. Thomas, unwilling sacrifice of his works under fire, 9
Harrod’s Stores, its infallibility, 119
“Hawkins,” Private, his dangerous passion for cigarettes, 16;
his convenient flesh-wound, 17
“Hawkshaw, Silas P.,” Lieut. Milton Hayes’s great creation of, 217
Hayes, Lieut. T. Milton, M.C., his personal appearance, 41;
his study of popular taste, 41;
his masterpieces, 41;
his literary methods and artistic imagination, 42;
secret of his greatness, 43;
his exploitation of young love, 44;
his inevitable success after the war, 45;
his theories on the gratification of appetite, 54;
his genial presence in the Alcove, 179;
the Colossus of the Mainz Theatre, 198;
his smile, 198;
his childlike pleasure in his own wit, 199;
his temporary retirement, 205;
his restoration by Sanatogen, 205;
the victim of professional rivalry, 207;
founds the “Buckshees,” 210;
his managerial methods, 212;
his beauty chorus, 214;
his wonderful opera, 216;
himself alone the Arabian bird, 217;
the eternal gratitude of his friends, 221
Heine, Heinrich, his bridge at Mainz, 47
Hendecourt, capture of, 6
Hindenburg, German faith in, 20
Hockey in captivity, 195
Holzminden, a notoriously bad camp, 120
Housman, Mr. A. E., Lieut. Stone’s recitations from, 176
Hueffer, Mr. Ford Madox, confiscation of his _Heaven_ by
German officials, 111
Humour, German lack of, 112
Hunger, a prisoner’s purgatory, 31, 51, 52
“Huns,” German distaste for the term, 112
Ill-treatment of English officers in prison-camps, 120;
by incompetent German doctors, 128
Imprisonment, effect on the nerves, 138
Interpreters, German, their simple gullibility, 29;
their estimate of _John Bull_, 30
Irishmen, their vitality in a queue, 61
Jealousy, professional, of rival actors, 202;
its influence on captivity, 203;
its comparison with the hate of nations, 204;
it works like mischief, 208
_John Bull_, the London weekly, German interpreter’s witticism concerning, 30
Kaiser, the, his boasted resemblance to Attila, 113;
his continued popularity in Germany, 231;
his desertion, 232;
the scapegoat of his people, 252
_Kantine_, the, at Mainz, its uses and abuses, 55, 59, 60;
its supply of text-books, 67;
its consolations and diversions, 145;
its commercial subtlety, 147
Karlsruhe, prisoners arrive at, 33;
comparative comfort of, 37
_Knave of Diamonds, The_, Lieut. Milton Hayes’s strange theory concerning, 55
Köln, the revolution at, 232
Lawn tennis in captivity, 195
Lens, alarming reports concerning, 14
“Leola, daughter of the Hesperides,” her appearance and its effect, 215
Lice, plague of, 31
Lille, apprehension regarding, 14
Lissauer, his cheap vehemence, 95
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