German Atrocities Their Nature and Philosophy By Newell Dwight Hillis Each 12mo, cloth, net, $1.20 STUDIES OF THE GREAT WAR What Each Nation Has at Stake LECTURES AND ORATIONS BY HENRY WARD BEECHER Collected by Newell Dwight Hillis THE MESSAGE OF DAVID SWING TO HIS GENERATION Compiled, with Introductory Memorial Address by Newell Dwight Hillis ALL THE YEAR ROUND Sermons for Church and Civic Celebrations THE BATTLE OF PRINCIPLES A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict THE CONTAGION OF CHARACTER Studies in Culture and Success THE FORTUNE OF THE REPUBLIC Studies, National and Patriotic, upon the America of To-day and To-morrow GREAT BOOKS AS LIFE-TEACHERS Studies of Character, Real and Ideal THE INVESTMENT OF INFLUENCE A Study of Social Sympathy and Service A MAN'S VALUE TO SOCIETY Studies in Self-Culture and Character * * * * * FAITH AND CHARACTER 12mo, cloth, gilt top, net, 75 cents FORETOKENS OF IMMORTALITY 12mo, cloth, net, 60 cents HOW THE INNER LIGHT FAILED 18mo, boards, net, 25 cents RIGHT LIVING AS A FINE ART A Study of Channing's Symphony 12mo, boards, net, 35 cents THE MASTER OF THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT LIVING 12mo, boards, net, 35 cents ACROSS THE CONTINENT OF THE YEARS 16mo, old English boards, net, 25 cents THE SCHOOL IN THE HOME Net, 60 cents German Atrocities Their Nature and Philosophy _Studies in Belgium and France During July and August of 1917_ By NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS [Illustration: Emblem] NEW YORK CHICAGO TORONTO Fleming H. Revell Company LONDON AND EDINBURGH Copyright, 1918, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street Foreword These inquiries into German atrocities were begun in the latter part of September, 1914. Friends who had escaped from Belgium during the latter part of August brought stories of German frightfulness that filled all hearers with horror. Being unwilling to accept their testimony without further evidence, I began a careful research, collecting letters, magazine articles, testimony of eye-witnesses, books, photographs, reports of the various commissions, by former Ambassador Bryce and Professor Toynbee, with those of the Commissions of Belgium, France, Poland, Serbia and Armenia. Last May, in the interest of the first Liberty Loan, Mr. Lawrence Chamberlain and I made a tour of eighteen states, speaking in some thirty-five cities, and often giving two, three and even five addresses in a single day. Everywhere during that tour we found public men raising the question, "What about the German atrocities? Do they not represent falsehoods invented by the enemy states?"