The advertisements, which took up rather more than half of each sheet, proved by long odds more interesting than the news. These were quite in best "peace time" style. The _Metropol-Variete_ (_Neu renoviert!_) informed all and sundry that "_Vier elegante junge Damen!_" disported themselves in its "_Kabarett_" every evening. The head-line of the great "_Spezialitäten Programm_" in the theatre was "_Die Grosse Sensation: Martini Szeny, genannt der 'Ausbrecher-König'!_" A number in the _Metropol's_ program which appealed to us more than all the others, however, was one which was featured further down the list, for there, sandwiched between "KITTY DEANOS UND PARTNER, _Kunstschutzen_," and "HANS ROMANS, _Liedersanger_," appeared "LITTLE WILLY, _Trapez-Volant_." "And all the time we thought he was in Holland," dryly commented the American officer who made the discovery. One could not help wondering respecting the "etymology" of "Little Willy," and whether that "Flying Trapezist" knew that he bore the favourite Allied nickname for His ex-Royal and Imperial Highness, Frederick Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Crown Prince of Germany, etc., etc. Evidence that Hun "piracy" had not been confined to their U-boats was unearthed in the discovery that the Adler-Theatre of Bremen advertised two performances of "DIE MODERNE EVA" for that very day--_Heute Sonntag_! "I ran across the chap who wrote 'The Modern Eve' somewhere out California way," said the same American who had spoken before. "He was some bore, too, take it from me; but he never deserved anything as bad as this, for the show itself was pretty nifty," and he began humming, in extemporaneously translated German the words of "Good-bye Everybody," the popular "song hit" from "The Modern Eve." It was a Berlin theatre which advertised "2 _Vorstellungen_ 2" of "Hamlet," which ended up the notice with "RAUCHEN STRENG VERBOTEN!" in large type. "If they burn the same stuff in Berlin that our Workmen and Soldier friends in the first-class are putting up that smoke barrage in the corridor with," said an airship officer, "it would have to be a case of '_Rauchen Streng Verboten_' or gas masks." A number of booksellers advertised long lists of "_Neue Werke_," but one searched these in vain for any of the notorious polemics directed against the Allies, or yet for the writings of any of the great protagonists of the "Deutschland Ueber Alles" movement. Most of them appeared to be "Romances" or out-and-out "Thrillers." Bachem, of Köln, described "_Der Meister_" as "_Der Roman eines Spiritisten_"; "_Wettertannen_" as a "_Tiroler Roman aus der Gegenwart von Hans Schrott_"; "_Wenn Irland dich ruft_" as "_Der Roman eines Fliegers_"; and "_Der blutige Behrpfennig_" as "_Erzählung aus dem Leben eines Priesters_." Although one would have thought that the German people had had quite enough of that kind of thing from their late Government, every book I saw advertised in any of these papers was fiction.