Literature, its military inconvenience, 8; its military relation to book-keeping, 65; its contemptuous ill-treatment by German officers, 126 Liver paste, its popularity among prisoners, 60 Longworth, Mr. F. Dames-, his epistolary courtesies, 235 _Loom of Youth, The_, its length and breadth, 182; its characteristic language, 182 _Lorna Doone_ as a study in the gratification of appetite, 55 Louis Napoleon in _La Débâcle_, strange effect upon a hungry prisoner, 54 Louvain, commissariat at, 34 _Lustige Blätter_, its gory caricatures, 93 Lyceum melodrama and the facts of war, 21 Lyttelton, Canon the Hon. E., his repugnance to actuality, 174; his helpful literary criticisms, 235 Maconochie’s beef dripping, 108, 129 Mainz, unpleasing prospect of, 45; doleful arrival at, 46; architectural features of, 46-47; the Offizier Kriegsgefangenenlager at, 47; “shades of the prison-house,” 48; prisoners’ routine at, 48; arrival of parcels at, 56; bombardment of, 123; inadequate medical service at, 127; the impregnability of its citadel, 152-71; revolutionists arrive at, 232; the armistice at, 246 Major, illicit process of a, 215 Manicure, its practice in captivity, 150 Marchiennes, 31; commandant at, his strict attention to business, 32 Mark, the value of, 58 Maupassant, Guy de, 187 Medical service, the German, total inadequacy at Mainz, 127 Melancholia of captivity, 142 Metz, prisoners entrain for, 256 Monchy, M.G.C. at, 5, 14, 24 Moore, Mr. George, effect of his prose upon a prisoner of war, 38; his yearning for a new language, 82; his support expected, 87; his confessions, 189 Nancy, prisoners at, 257 Nichols, Mr. Robert, his fine war-poetry, 95 Noreil, capture of, 4 Offensive, the Great (March 21, 1918), 1-17 Officers, English, their treatment as prisoners, 118 Otto’s Grammars, illicit hoarding of, 67 _Oxford Book of English Verse_, its preservation from the Germans, 10 Pater, Walter, and the psychology of captivity, 144; quoted, 149; Lieut. Stone’s admiration for, 184; quoted, 188 Patriotism denounced by Lieut. Stone under the influence of Rhine wine, 178 Paymaster, official activities of, 58, 61 Peace, German passion for, 35, 36, 230 Perambulation the sole diversion of the prisoner, 196 Peronne, 14 _Pickwick Papers_, Lieut. Milton Hayes upon, 54 Pitt League, the, its foundation by Col. “Westcott,” 71; its principle of combination, 72; the origin of its name, 72; its imperialistic sweep, 73, 74; its military comprehensiveness, 74; its success, 76; its further development as the Pitt Escape League, 166; its beneficent foundation of the “Alcove,” 173 Porter, Mrs. Gene Stratton, efforts of a prisoner to secure her masterpiece, 50 “Pows,” the, concert party at Mainz, 197; the rousing of its ambition, 200 Press, the British, its indefatigable propaganda, 29