Excerpt from In the Enemy's Country: Being the Diary of a Little Tour in Germany Elsewhere During the Early Days of the War The absurd naivete of the aggressive patriot's state of mind is neatly shown in the remark of another German lady to Mrs. Houghton on August 5: Have you heard the dreadful news Italy has betrayed us, and England has declared war. Germany is like a hunted hare. But what a human touch is there, when this German woman, seeing the Englishwoman's distress, breaks down also, and the enemies weep together, with the deeper wisdom of the heart About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.