A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . HERR SOLOMON, THE KANTINE KEEPER. in the cooking, a number of women from thecountry being employed, and we usuallywere served with a soup which we couldeat without loss of self-respect. Being inthe centre of an agricultural district, we hada good supply of potatoes and certain vege-tables, and when we were able to supplement 142 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE these with a sHce of bully, we did not dotoo badly. Much Reading ! Immediately on our arrival at Beeskow Iwas appointed to the enviable post oflibra
A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . HERR SOLOMON, THE KANTINE KEEPER. in the cooking, a number of women from thecountry being employed, and we usuallywere served with a soup which we couldeat without loss of self-respect. Being inthe centre of an agricultural district, we hada good supply of potatoes and certain vege-tables, and when we were able to supplement 142 A CAPTIVE AT CARLSRUHE these with a sHce of bully, we did not dotoo badly. Much Reading ! Immediately on our arrival at Beeskow Iwas appointed to the enviable post oflibrarian, but found myself in the un-enviable position of having no Hbrary. Iaccordingly placed upon the notice board thefollowing urgent appeal: WovLU-ArrfofflCtp. WHO JS OK IEW» AFEVBoojfS To TJIE. This rather tickled the camp, includingthe German officers, who immediately r(sponded with a gift of some twenty volumesUnfortunateh% these were entirely in Geiman, through which only one or two of th^ MUCH READING ! 143 officers could even spell their way, but theywere in the nature of a godsend to M. Bloch,a Russian dentist, \a ho was the only foreignofficer in camp, and who spoke German asfluently as one may speak that influenttongue. Pro tern., then, I considered myselfas acting to him in the not onerous capacityof private librarian. A few fragments of Tauchnitz editionswere very literally fluttering around thecamp, and on these I affixed whereverpossible the seal of my office—and atouch of seccotine. I also sent out appealsto the Christlichen Vereine Junger Manner,Berlin ; to Sir Alfred Da vies, and the CampLibraries Committee, London; while Imade ordering of a formidable list ofTauchnitz publications. BerUn respondedalmost immediately with thirty volumes ofvaried sort, mostly
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