(_From King Albert's Book._)

[Music illustration:

1. Men of Belgium! Honour's own!
Ye who saved the Holy Grail,
Ye who died for Freedom's Crown,
Hail, ye brave, for ever hail!

2. Wives of Belgium! who to Death
Paid the toll of Mother's wail,
Bound with widowed sorrow's wreath
The brows of Death, ye dear saints: hail!

3. Maids of Belgium! ye who gazed
At worse than sullen Death, and pale
In terror, yet with eyes undazed,
Smiled on at Hope--ye sweethearts--Hail!
Maids of Belgium! Sweethearts, Hail!

4. Land of Belgium! earth and sky
For evermore shall tell thy tale.
The morning comes! Thou shalt not die!
Hail! Thou Sad Immortal: Hail!
Hail! Thou Sad Immortal: Hail!

N.B.--If it is desired to sing this as a simple Hymn, the Melody of
the 3rd verse should be omitted and the words sung to the opening
eight bars, as in the 1st and 2nd verses]

Holland's Future

By H.G. Wells.

(_Copyright by The New York Times Company._)

The article which follows was written by H.G. Wells for
publication in England. The British censor, however, refused
to permit its appearance there, and thus it was printed in
the United States for the first time by THE NEW YORK TIMES
on Feb. 7, 1915. In the development of his argument Mr.
Wells points out that "the Dutch hold a sword at the back of
Germany." That Holland has no intention of sheathing this
sword, so removing a menace from Germany, is indicated by
the recent cable from The Hague telling of the message sent
by the Government to the Second Chamber of the Legislature
dealing with pending legislation to prolong the term of
enlistment in the regular army, in which this language is
used: "The position of our country demands today, as it did
in August, that our entire military force should be at all
times available."

What changes for Holland are likely to result from the present war?

Let me, as an irresponsible journalist, try to estimate them, and try
to forecast what Holland is likely to do in the next few months. I do
not want for a moment to suggest what Dutchmen ought to do; this
preaching to highly intelligent neutrals is not a writer's business,
but I want to imagine how things must look in the private mind of a
wary patriotic Hollander, and to guess what may be the outcome.
Because in many wa