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THE MINOR HORRORS
OF WAR
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Photograph of enlarged model of the house-fly (Musca domestica) in the AmericanMuseum of Natural History, New York. (From Gordon Hewitt.) P. 57.
[Frontispiece
THE MINOR HORRORS
OF WAR
BY
A. E. SHIPLEY, Sc.D.
Hon.Sc.D. Princeton, F.R.S.
MASTER OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND READER IN ZOOLOGY
IN THE UNIVERSITY
ILLUSTRATED
LONDON
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1915
[All rights reserved]
HENRICO ARTHURO ADEANE MALLET
ET
HENRICO ANTONIO PATRICIO DISNEY
ALTERI MARI AERE ALTERI
UTRIQUE FIDELISSIME
PATRIAM TUTANTI
PREFACE
The contents of this little book hardly justifyits title. There are whole ranges of ‘MinorHorrors of War’ left untouched in the followingchapters. The minor poets, the pamphletsof the professors, the people who write to thepapers about ‘Kultur’ and think that this isthe German for Matthew Arnold’s over-workedword ‘Culture,’ the half-hysterical ladies whooffer white feathers to youths whose hearts arebreaking because medical officer after medicalofficer has refused them the desire of theiryoung lives to serve their country. Surely,as Carlyle taught us, ‘There is no animal sostrange as man!’