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One of the blog's ground rules is to avoid any prejudicial material but I just couldn't skip this bit of anti-German propaganda from the start of World War I. It's a revised version of Heinrich Hoffman's 1845 Struwwelpeter (usually translated as Shock-Headed Peter) and if you're familiar with the original its tales of unruly children who receive disproportionately harsh punishments will seem a natural for the purpose. In fact this was repeated again in 1941 as Struwwelhitler which isn't online but was reprinted by a German publisher recently.
E.V. Lucas was a very prolific writer in a variety of genres - essays, novels, anthologies, travel books, art criticism, humor and a book about cricket. He edited Charles Lamb's works and spent 34 years on the staff of Punch.
