_By Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg
and Sir Edward Grey_

THE KAISER AT DONCHERY 1125
_By The Associated Press_

HAIL! A HYMN TO BELGIUM (Music by F.H. Cowen) 1126
_By John Galsworthy_

HOLLAND'S FUTURE (With Map) 1128
_By H.G. Wells_

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES 1133

A FRENCH MAYOR'S PUNISHMENT 1163
_By The Associated Press_

WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END 1164
_By Premier Viviani of France_

_NUITS BLANCHES_ 1166
_By H.S. Haskins_

UNCONQUERED FRANCE 1167
_From the Bulletin Francais_

FOUR MONTHS OF WAR (With Map) 1169
_From the Bulletin des Armees_

LONG LIVE THE ALLIES! 1174
_By Claude Monet_

UNITED STATES FAIR TO ALL 1175
_By William J. Bryan,
American Secretary of State_

THE HOUSE WITH SEALED DOORS (Poem) 1183
_By Edith M. Thomas_

SEIZURES OF AMERICAN CARGOES 1184
_By William J. Bryan,
American Secretary of State_

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE TO AMERICA 1187
_By The Associated Press_

THE OFFICIAL BRITISH EXPLANATION 1188
_By Sir Edward Grey_

ITALY AND THE WAR (With Map) 1192
_By William Roscoe Thayer_

HE HEARD THE BUGLES CALLING (Poem) 1198
_By Carey C.D. Briggs_

GERMAN SOLDIERS WRITE HOME 1199

WAR CORRESPONDENCE 1207

THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT) 1210
_By Annie Vivanti Chartres_

THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem) 1216
_By Alice Meynell_

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 1224

TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem) 1228
_By William Watson_

[Illustration: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW]

[Illustration: ARNOLD BENNETT. _See Page_ 60]

"Common Sense About the War"

By George Bernard Shaw.

I.

"_Let a European war break out--the war, perhaps, between the
Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists
and politicians in England and Germany contemplate with criminal
levity. If the combatants prove to be equally balanced, it may,
after the first battles, smoulder on for thirty years. What will be
the population of London, or Manchester, or Chemnitz, or Bremen, or
Milan, at the end of it_?" ("The Great Society," by Graham Wallas.
June, 1914.)

(_Copyright, 1914, By The New York Times Company._)

The time has now come to pluck up courage and begin to talk and write
soberly about the war. A