The rest of the story belongs to history. How he went back to Brussels; how when the city seemed doomed, and all the government officials left, he stayed on; how when the city was preparing to resist by force, he went to Burgomaster Max and convinced him that it was useless, and so saved the city from the fate of Louvain; how he took charge of the relief work, how the King of Belgium thanked him for his services to the country; how the city of Brussels in gratitude gave him a picture by Van Dyck, a priceless thing, which he accepted--not for himself but for his home city of Toledo; how after the war, he went back, not as Minister but as Ambassador,--all these are among the proud memories of America's part in the World War. Brand Whitlock is so much more than an author that it is with an effort that we turn to consider his literary work. His first book, _The Thirteenth District_, published in 1902, was a novel of American politics; it contains a capital description of a convention, and shows the strategy of political leaders as seen by a keen observer. In _Her Infinite Variety_ he dealt with the suffrage movement as it was in 1904, with determined women seeking the ballot, and equally determined women working just as hard to keep it away from them. _The Happy Average_ was a story of an every-day American couple: they were not rich, nor famous, nor divorced,--yet the author thinks their story is typical of most American lives. _The Turn of the Balance_ is a novel that grew out of his legal experiences: it deals with the underworld of crime, and often in a depressing way. It reflects the author's belief that the present organization of society, and our methods of administering justice, are the cause of much of the misery in the world. Following these novels came two volumes of short stories, _The Gold Brick_ and _The Fall Guy_: both deal with various aspects of American life of to-day. In 1914 he published an autobiography under the title _Forty Years of It_. This is interesting as a picture of political life of the period in Ohio. His latest book, _Memories of Belgium under the German Occupation_, tells the story of four eventful years. In all that trying time, each night, no matter how weary he was, he forced himself to set down the events of the day. From these records he wrote a book that by virtue of its first-hand information and its literary art ranks among the most important of the books called forth by the Great War. THE TRAVELING SALESMAN