her wall far more rapidly than our dilly-dally statesmen imagine. For the immediate time, her degradation and ruin involve more than her own position; other nations, even our own, are deeply affected, and, like ships in unsafe anchorage, sway from their moorings--all are tormented by a spirit of turbulence which will not let them rest, and men with weak brains and vacillating purpose are playing with the destinies of peoples in a wholly unforseeing and nerveless way, heedless of the fact that there are other more powerful players behind them who are about to make an end of their game and push them far away from the goal. In what I have written, however slight and inadequate, I have had but one aim in view: to hold up to the public as far as I can or may, the greatness of this beloved land of ours--its splendid ancient history and tradition, and to resent, as much as a mere pen can do, the disloyal and agitating influences which seek to disrupt unity and belittle the achievements of the noble British people. Of the wicked waste of that people’s money by the most obtuse Government methods, and the iniquitous premium on idleness foolishly given in the “Unemployment dole,” I could say much, notwithstanding that I am told it is “a sop to check Bolshevism.” One does not offer a sop to a mad bull--one kills it. And it is not credible that the sane, sound men of Great Britain, with an Empire of glorious renown at their backs, will ally themselves with Red Riot which means ruin to themselves as well as to its instigators. True it is that Stupidity is the present order of the day among our blind leaders of the blind--that very Stupidity which Voltaire affirmed to be the only crime--and there is little else for us to do in our extremity but “wait and see” whether Stupidity will prove more than a blundering guide to “where the rainbow ends.” CONTENTS PAGE ENGLAND, 1918 15 SAVAGE GLORY 16 FOR BELGIUM! 30 THE GREAT UNREST 31 THE WHIRLWIND 46 THE KAISER’S HARVEST OF DEATH 53 THIS AMAZING WAR 61 “ALL WE LIKE SHEEP” 67 WANTED--MORE WOMEN! 73 THE QUALITY OF MERCY 79 STARVING BELGIUM 83 “THE TIME OF OUR LIVES” 92 THE WORLD’S GREATEST NEED 99 HAS CHRISTIANITY FAILED? 114 SNOOKS’S OPINION 116 SEA POWER, 1805–1918 122 THE SPLENDID SERVICE OF THE SEA 124 THE LILIES OF FRANCE 131 “WHOSO SHALL RECEIVE ONE SUCH LITTLE CHILD!” 133 APPEAL FOR THE FRENCH RED CROSS 139 GLORY OF THE WORCESTERS 145 EYES OF THE SEA 156 IS ALL WELL WITH ENGLAND? 171 THE WORLD IN TEARS 189 GOD AND THE WAR 200 TRIUMPH OF WOMANHOOD 205 IN PRAISE OF ENEMIES 209 RECRUITING SPEECH 215 SPLENDID CANADA 219 SHELLS; AND OTHER SHELLS 222 DARKNESS AND LIGHT 227 SWEEPING THE COUNTRY 230