England's "Splendid Isolation" [Illustration: _--From Simplicissimus, Munich._] [English Cartoon] The Sultan "Over the Water" [Illustration: _--From Punch, London._ MEHMED V. (to Constantinople): "I don't want to leave you, but I think I ought to go."] [German Cartoon] Churchill's Flag Swindle [Illustration: _--From Simplicissimus, Munich._ "Really I don't care to go out any more in these disgraceful rags!" "Cheer up, Mrs. Britannia, just steal something better!"] [German Cartoon] May God Punish England! [Illustration: [Reproduction of a cover design of a widely advertised issue of "Simplicissimus," the German comic weekly published in Munich. The legend at the top reads, "May God Punish England!"]] [Italian Cartoon] Speeches of the Kaiser in 1915 [Illustration: _--From L'Asino, Rome._ JANUARY: "I alone will defeat the world." MARCH: "Naturally, with God's help." JUNE: "All goes badly--the fault is not mine." DECEMBER: "The fault is his."] [English Cartoon] Our Embarrassing Cousin [Illustration: _--From The Bystander, London._ JONATHAN: "In spite 'f my noo-trality, John, d'ye notice how 'ffectionate I am?--how I sympathise with yer?" JOHN BULL: "M--m'yes, that's all right, but I should like it better just now if you'd leave my hands a bit freer to fight those rascals as they deserve!"] [German Cartoon] John Bull at the Costumer's [Illustration: _--From Simplicissimus, Munich._ "What costume shall I choose so that none will recognize me?" "Why don't you go as a gentleman?"] [English Cartoon] William o' the Wisp [Illustration: _--From Punch, London._] [German Cartoon] American Neutrality [Illustration: _--From Meggendorfer-Blaetter, Munich._] [English Cartoon] What the War Office Has to Put Up With [Illustration: _--From Punch, London._ Demonstration of a device for catching bombs from airships.] [German Cartoon] Va Banque! [Illustration: _--From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin._ The Monte Carlo habitue's last play.] [Italian Cartoon] The Final Earthquake--In Germany [Illustration: _--From L'Asino, Rome._ By the grace of God and the will of the nation. [The falling columns are marked "feudalism" and "militarism."]] [German Cartoon] From the English Eating-House [Illustration: _--From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin._ England utilizes the refuse of her domestic establishment as cannon fodder.] [English Cartoon] The Bread-Winner [Illustration: _--From Punch, London._] [Italian Cartoon] Italy's Neutrality [Illustration: _--From L'Asino, Rome._ Every day the dance becomes more difficult. (The dancer is the German Ambassador, von Buelow.)] [English Cartoon] Busy Packing [Illustration: _--From The Bystander, London._ SULTAN MEHMED: "'Am I there'?!! I should rather think I am!! We're being 'moved,' you know. And the hammering outside is something too awful!!"