Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Webster Nesta Helen (Mrs. Arthur Webster)
Title : Germany and England
Year : 1938

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Foreword. For the benefit of the younger generation or of foreigners who, never having read “Trilby,” may fail to understand the meaning of the frontispiece to the book, it should be explained that the famous novel of this name, written and illustrated by the late George du Maurier, which appeared in 1894, described the history of an artist’s model named Trilby in the Quartier Latin of Paris, who, without any natural voice, was hypnotized to sing by a clever Jewish musician named Svengali, and fell completely under his power. The point in reproducing it here is to show that the British people are being hypnotized to repeat the phrases put into their mouths at the wave of a conductor’s baton. Herr Hitler in October, 1938 said: “England would be well advised to stop governessing Europe.” ...