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Nearly 3/4 done with the Saki megapack now. The Unbearable Bassington was an interesting read, full of his trademark wit and with the sharpness less hidden. But When William Came is awful. I expected a tediously jingoistic call to arms, but did not expect rabid antisemitism to be so openly expressed. Reading lengthy descriptions of the Jews as eager collaborators with the new German overlords was particularly distasteful given how that relationship actually turned out just a couple of decades after Munro wrote this. Racing through to get back to more of his short stories. Them I shall remember with much more fondness.
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