The author of this humorous book poses as the editor of an unpublished manuscript by a modernist German poet named Gustav Leberwurst. It soon becomes clear that the text consists of English nursery rhymes that have been transformed into similar-sounding but absurd German phrases (e.g. "Mother Goose" becomes German "Mörder Guss," literally "murderer gush"). Hulme solemnly analyzes these nonsensical German lines as if they expressed serious poetic intent. The result is dry satire.