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LIST OF CARTOONS AND THE DESCRIPTIVE NOTES PAGE PORTRAIT OF LOUIS RAEMAEKERS INTRODUCTION Francis Stopford AN APPRECIATION FROM THE PRIME MINISTER H. H. Asquith CHRISTENDOM AFTER TWENTY CENTURIES Francis Stopford 8 A STABLE PEACE Eden Phillpotts 10 THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENT...

Chapters

9. Chapter 9

"Has it come to this?" Well may the Goddess ask this question. Times are indeed changed since the heroic days. Germany has still her great Greek scholars, one or two of them amo...

3. Chapter 3

This terrible cartoon points its own lesson so forcibly that its effect is more likely to be weakened than strengthened by any verbal comment. Death quaffs a goblet of human blo...

5. Chapter 5

The recent descent of so many of her citizens from the people now warring in Europe has of necessity prevented America from looking on events in Europe with a single eye. But th...

13. Chapter 13

The German soldier in this war would seem to have lost well nigh all touch of humanity. Yet the draughtsman here suggests that even the German soldier on occasion yields to the...

12. Chapter 12

And poor old Turkey! Always a figure of comedy, never ready in time, always ineffective, never fully able to use the weapons of so-called "civilization." Let it always be rememb...

6. Chapter 6

It would certainly be very satisfactory for German world-politics if the sea could be dried up everywhere; but it is unlikely that the incident will occur, especially in that ne...

10. Chapter 10

Men who claim British birth claim also the quality of loyalty, as a rule, and thus there can be little sympathy with such a one as this Liebknecht, whom Raemaekers shows as a li...

2. Chapter 2

Some "neutrals," and even some of the people here in England, still doubt the reality of the German atrocities in Belgium, but Raemaekers has seen and spoken with those to whom...

8. Chapter 8

The Latin Sisters! Note carefully the expression of France as contrasted with that of Italy. France, violated by the Hun, exhibits grim determination made sacrosanct by sufferin...

4. Chapter 4

The Dance of Death has long been the theme of the moralist in art, from Orcagna's fresco on the walls of the Campo Santo at Pisa to Holbein's great woodcuts and our own Rowlands...

7. Chapter 7

With this cartoon before me, I am driven to fear that when the war is done there will rise up in Germany a louder and stronger cry against the Christianity of Christ than ever w...

11. Chapter 11

It has been at all times, with the single exception above noted, a hustling, grabbing, self-seeking race. May the eyes of Germany soon be opened! Then, surely, it will be thrust...

1. Chapter 1

LIST OF CARTOONS AND THE DESCRIPTIVE NOTES PAGE PORTRAIT OF LOUIS RAEMAEKERS INTRODUCTION Francis Stopford AN APPRECIATION FROM THE PRIME MINISTER H. H. Asquith CHRISTENDOM AFTE...

14. Chapter 14

It was difficult for us to realize that we were at war. And at war not merely to protect the weak and uphold ideals of national righteousness, but for national existence itself....