REPRODUCTIONS OF A SERIES OF LITHOGRAPHS OF MUNITION WORKS MADE BY HIM WITH THE PERMISSION AND AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, WITH NOTES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY THE ARTIST [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1918 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY JOSEPH PENNELL PUBLISHED JANUARY, 1918 PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. INTRODUCTION--MY LITHOGRAPHS OF WAR WORK I have come back from the Jaws of Death--back from the Mouth of Hell--to my own land, my own people. I have never passed such an exciting year in my life--and beside, I hope I have been able to accomplish something in my work which shall show one phase of the Wonder of the World’s Work of to-day. I was honoured a year ago by being permitted by the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, then Minister of Munitions in England, to make drawings in the various factories and works and shipyards which were engaged in war work in that country--and the records of what I saw were published as lithographs of War Work in England and in a previous volume in this series. Now, though I do not believe in war, I do not see why some pictorial record of what is being done to carry on the war should not be made--made from an artist’s standpoint--for we are in it--being in the world--but I am not of it.