INDEX

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Z

“Alcove,” the, its cosy comforts, 173; protection of its own interests, 175-8; a place of happy memories, 186-90; Milton Hayes in retirement in, 207 Alhambra, the, the future home of Aubrey Dowdon, 201 Amiens, its luxuries, 150 Amusements in captivity, 193 et seq. Anti-Northcliffe Times, the, 222 Architecture flourishes in the Alcove, 178 Armistice, the, in Mainz, 236 et seq. “Arnold,” Capt., his bibulous escapade at Karlsruhe, 113 Arras to St. Quentin, attack upon, 3 Asceticism, its ethics considered, 53 Aspirin, German doctor’s sole prescription, 128 Authorship, as fostered by the Pitt League, 173, 178 Baden-Hessen, its native moderation, 117 Bapaume, 14 Barclay, Mrs. Florence, lengths resorted to by a prisoner to secure her Rosary, 50 “Barron,” Lieut., his capacity for sleep, 131; his ingenuity as cook, 132; his self-sacrifice in a good cause, 135; his amiable companionship, 141; a friend to the last, 260 Beauty chorus of the “Buckshees,” 214 Beef dripping as an ingredient in chocolate soufflé, 133 Bennett, Mr. Arnold, his praises sung, 184 Berlin, all roads lead to, 16 Berliner Tageblatt, Der, its hectic effusions, 224 Bible, the, sacrilege upon, by a German officer, 125 Billiards as a form of athletics, 196 Bolshevism, the shadow of, 233; a German waiter on, 237 Bomenheim, Herr, formerly window-cleaner, eventually Commandant of Frankfort, 241 “Book of Common Prayer,” its inadequacy as a complete prison-library, 49 Boulogne, prisoners at, 262 Bout-Merveille, generosity of the inhabitants, 34 Bread, arrival of, at Mainz: mouldiness of, 102 Brooke, Rupert, 191 “Buckshees,” the, Milton Hayes’s operatic company at Mainz, 210 Bullecourt, capture of, 4 Bully-beef as an incentive to platitude, 104; its monotony, 129 Bureaucracy, its insidious influence among prisoners, 64; its inquisitiveness, 65; its confusion of literature with commerce, 66; German bureaucracy and food parcels, 109 Byron, Lord, Lieut. Stone’s resemblance to, 176 Cambrai, Headquarter orders concerning, 7 Cannan, Mr. Gilbert, his Stucco House saved from fire, 10; Lieut. Stone’s mild admiration for, 184 Captivity, its irksomeness and psychology, 139-46 Carlton Hotel, a waiter at, now a German orderly in Mainz, 237; his political views, 237 Censor of letters, his natural modesty, 78 Cheshire Cheese, the, visions of, in captivity and after, 188 Chestnuts, their nutritive value as coffee, 27 Chocolate, its Shavian importance in event of an escape, 160; its market price in Germany, 229 Chocolate soufflé, novel recipe for, 132 Claustrophobia, its effect on prisoners, 47 Colonels, three British, attempt to escape from Mainz, 161; ignominious result of, 163 Commandant of Mainz, the, his arrogant pomposity, 121; his vindictiveness, 123; his cheap revenges, 123; his contempt for literature, 125; his punishments for attempted escapes, 164; his final error and fall, 242 Committees, their characteristic abuses, 209 Continental Times, the, its glib mendacity, 222; its pro-German propaganda, 223 Cooking in a prison camp, 129 Copenhagen, bread arrives from, 100 Corporal, scepticism of a section-, 2 Correspondence, abnormal, 14 Cox, Messrs., the accommodating bankers, 58 “Croft,” Col., as harbinger of food, 101 Crown Prince, the, his inflammatory portraits, 98 Cuff, Sergeant, in The Moonstone, 158 Dane, Miss Clemence, her fiction under fire, 9 Dickens, Charles, his extravagant characterisation reproduced in Col. “Westcott,” 69 Dictaphones, German use of, 30 Douai, prisoners march to, 23; illiterate melancholy of, 27; dictaphones at, 30 “Dowdon,” Aubrey, his astounding musical gifts, 198; his imperishable libretti, 201; stimulating his ambition, 202; to the rescue of the “Buckshees,” 212 Dowson, Ernest, 188 Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings, his inspiration of the modern soldier, 21 “Dried Veg,” nutritive solace of, 56 Dury, 24 Ecoust, capture of, 4 Education, the British dislike of, 68 Escapes, the romance of, 152; various schemes for, 154; the first attempt at, 158-62; effect of, upon cowardly natures, 164; punishment for attempts, 164; Col. Wright’s splendid attempts, 167; and their frustration, 169 “Evans,” Lieut., his knowledge of charts, 13; his tactful reticence, 15; his watchfulness, 15; his unsuccessful quest for parcels, 106; his enthusiasm for Col. “Westcott’s” oratory, 130; his natural appetite, 134; and picturesque language, 134; his cookery examination, 136 Field Service Regulations, their bearing upon capture, 18 Finland, its future in the herring trade, 84 Finnish language, the, its visionary path to a Priority Pass, 83 Flaubert, Gustave, 144; his slow workmanship, 183 Foch, Marshal, effect of his offensive on the German mind, 232 Food, the lack of, 27, 31, 50, 51; cost of, in Germany, 228 Food-parcels, their absorbing interest, 55, 100, 105 Football in captivity, 194 Frankfort, Central Command at, vindicates the integrity of literature, 126; the effect of the armistice at, 240 Frankfurter Zeitung, Der, its journalistic continence, 93; its popularity among prisoners, 223; no fosterer of wild rumour, 238 French, German hatred of, 249 French language, the, difficulty of acquiring among prisoners, 64; the British bureaucrat’s estimate of, 66 “Frobisher,” Capt., his military enthusiasm, 174; his dislike of “the Huns,” 174; his inappropriateness in the Alcove, 175; the scheme for his removal, 176; his antipathy to poetry, 177; his final exit from the Alcove, 178 Future Career Society, the, its inauguration and methods, 63; its bureaucratic administrators, 64-6; its early popularity and subsequent failure, 67-8 Games in captivity, their scarcity, 193 German officers, their unshaved condition, 19; their mean suspicions, 110; their lack of humour, 112; their duplicity, 121; solitary example of wit among, 126; degradation of, under revolution, 233 German people, the, psychology in war-time, 91; its freedom from vindictiveness, 92; its ignorance of the origin of the war, 96; its despair at the result, 224; after the armistice, 248; German war-poetry considered, 94-6 German professor, a, upon the war and the national characteristics, 97, 238 German sentries, their courteous demeanour, 33; their starved condition, 117; their ubiquity at Mainz, 153; neglect of duty, 162; their passion for boxing, 168; their visions in days to come, 191 Gibbs, Mr. Philip, his vivid journalism, 14 Girl on the Stairs, The, successful operetta at Mainz, 201 “Gladstone,” Lieut., as a musical composer, 213 Gomorrah, the dispensation of, 87 Gosse, Mr. Edmund, quoted, 149 Graves, Capt. Robert, his poems a perpetual comfort in the trenches, 9; his admirable war-poetry, 94 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 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 Priority Pass, the, its conception by Lieut. “Wilkins,” 77; its philosophy, 78; its deceptive working, 80 Public School Education, its effect on the soul of youth, 148 Punch, the gospel of Lieut. Milton Hayes, 213 Queues, their origin and psychology, 58 “Radcliffe,” Lieut., his mastery of the piano, 213 “Ragging” the Commandant of Mainz, 123 Railway travelling in Germany, its pestilent conditions, 34 R.A.M.C., ingenious treatment of bread, 102 Rations, poverty of, 50, 51 Red Cross Prisoners of War Depôt, its efficiency and worth, 37, 38, 100, 110 Reincourt, capture of, 6 Respirator, the psychical qualities of a, 1 Revolution, the, in Mainz, 232, 236 Rhine wine, effect of, upon Lieut. Stone, 175, 185 Richards, Mr. Grant, his publisher’s contracts, 183 Richardson, Mr. H. H., Lieut. Stone’s enthusiasm for the works of, 184 Romance, the Lyric Theatre success, Lieut. T. Milton Hayes’s analysis of, 44 Routine of the Gefangenenlager, 48 Russia, German theory about, 96 Sanatogen, its effect on Lieut. Milton Hayes, 205 Sassoon, Mr. Siegfried, his “In the Pink,” 95; a poor compliment to, 223 Satin-tasso as a resource in captivity, 146 Sauerkraut, ubiquity of, 31, 50 Scarlet Pimpernel, the, as an example to adventurous prisoners, 166 Schopenhauer, Lieut. Stone expounds, 176 Schoolmasters, their intellectual mediocrity, 69; their stock defence, 148; the long array of, in the Spectator, 235 Scotsmen, their dilatoriness in queues, 61; their assistance in Col. Wright’s attempt to escape, 168 Secrecy, official regard for, 7 Selfridge’s, its efficient service, 119 Sentries, German, their unexpected affability, 33; their starvation, 117 Sergeant-Major, alcoholic dignity of an English, 23; blindness of a German, 31 Shakespeare, William, hastily misquoted by a subaltern, 9 “Shivers,” the, theatrical company at Mainz, 200; its beneficent competition, 200 Shorthand, the British bureaucratic esteem for, 66 Simplicissimus, its filthy cartoons, 93 Squire, Mr. J. C., his “To a Bull-dog,” 95 Starvation, phenomena of, 28, 51, 53, 117; of Germany, 228 St. Leger, the Rev. B. G. Bourchier’s army hut at, 5 “Stone,” Lieut., his ready wit, 39; his fortunate arrival at Mainz, 48; his sufferings under the Priority Pass system, 80-2; his opinion of botany as a science, 82; his share in the vision of a new language, 83; tackles Capt. Frobisher, 175; his lecture on the “higher life,” 176; his brilliant conversation, 184; effects of Rhine wine upon, 175, 185; his unrecited poems, 186 Swedish drill, British distaste for, 194 Swinburne, Algernon Charles, his poems as a covert for propaganda, 125 Symons, Mr. Arthur, quoted, 28; the women of his songs, 189 “Tarrant,” Lieut., his endurance under control, 38; his asceticism, 38; his critical sallies, 40; his self-imposed fast, 40; providential arrival of, at Mainz, 48; his invaluable library, 49; his breakfast hour, 179; his morning apparel, 180; his literary exercises, 181; his accuracy, 182; his frank opinion of the author’s fiction, 235 Tartarin re-embodied in Col. “Westcott,” 73 Tatler, the, its coy picture-gallery, 5 Tchecov, his short stories, 187 Theatre, the, at Mainz, closed as a punishment for attempted escapes, 165; its peaceful penetration, 172; its excellent shows, 197 Thurloe Place, the Good Samaritan of the P.O.W., 107, 109 Torquennes, 24 Treacle, its value in chocolate soufflé, 134 Treatment of prisoners, 116 et seq. Troubadour, Der, at Mainz, 254 Verlaine, Paul, 188 Vis-en-Artois, 24 Vitry, prisoners’ reception at, 26 War-poetry, good and bad, 94 War and the politicians, 226 et seq. Watts-Dunton, Mr. Theodore, compared with Lieut. Stone, 185 Waugh, 2nd Lieut. Alec R., his dogmatic statements on men and matters, 1-267; his abnormal correspondence, 14; his dogged somnolence, 15; his first meeting with Milton Hayes, 41; his ambitions for a future career, and their reception by Authority, 64; his apocalyptic vision of a new language, 83; his imaginary acquisition of a Priority Pass, 86; his chastened disillusionment, 90; his recognition of his own good fortune, 92; his selection as cook to the mess, 130; his culinary prowess, 132-6; his experiment on the school organ, 157; his contented hours in the Alcove, 186; his love of the years before he was born, 189; his castigation by a body of bureaucrats, 209; an unwarrantable compliment to, 223; his apostacy as a rebel, 234; German adjutant’s literary judgment of, 235; his return home, 265 Waugh, Mr. Arthur, his paternal benevolence, 266 Waugh, Mrs. Arthur, her Scottish descent, 261 Weather, the, effect upon a prisoner’s spirits, 50 Webster, John, the favourite quotation of prisoners of war, 142 Wells, Mr. H. G., Lieut. Stone discusses, 184 “Westcott,” Col., his Dickensian qualities, 69; his relation to the music-hall stage, 69; his soldierly grip, 70; his hatred of individualism, 70; his bravery, 71; his foundation of the Pitt League, 71; his opening speech, 71; his sense of humour, 72; his likeness to Tartarin, 73; his indomitable energy, 75; his affection for his own scheme, 75; as Prime Minister, 76; his encouragement of honest ambition, 84; his “dream within a dream,” 89; the popularity of his speeches, 130; his interest in attempted escapes, 155; the Gallio of frivolous amusement, 193 Whitest Man I know, The, eminent monologue by Lieut. T. Milton Hayes, M.C., 41 “Wilkins,” Lieut., his ingenious conception of the Priority Pass, 79 Woman, her ruling passion for self-advertisement, 170 Wood-carving as a resource in captivity, 145 “Wright,” Col., his valiant attempt to escape, 166; his choice of daylight, 166; his unfortunate intrusion upon a German amour, 169; the result, 170; his disappearance from Mainz, 171 Zola, Émile, La Terre in the dugout, 10; La Débâcle as an irritant to hunger, 53

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