I appeal to the American people to picture to themselves the plight of these poor creatures and to endeavor in practical fashion to secure that they shall be saved from further avoidable suffering. Nothing that our people can do will remedy the frightful wrong that has been committed on these families. Nothing that can now be done by the civilized world, even if the neutral nations of the civilized world should at last wake up to the performance of the duty they have so shamefully failed to perform, can undo the dreadful wrong of which these unhappy children, these old men and women, have been the victims. All that can be done surely should be done to ease their suffering. The part that America has played in this great tragedy is not an exalted part; and there is all the more reason why Americans should hold up the hands of those of their number who, like Mrs. Wharton, are endeavoring to some extent to remedy the national shortcomings. We owe to Mrs. Wharton all the assistance we can give. We owe this assistance to the good name of America, and above all for the cause of humanity we owe it to the children, the women and the old men who have suffered such dreadful wrong for absolutely no fault of theirs. THEODORE ROOSEVELT TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTRIBUTIONS OF WRITERS AND MUSICIANS MAURICE BARRÈS PAGE Les Frères 59 Translation: The Brothers 61 SARAH BERNHARDT Une Promesse 64 Translation: A Promise 64 LAURENCE BINYON The Orphans of Flanders. _Poem_ 3 PAUL BOURGET Après un An 65 Translation: One Year Later 67 RUPERT BROOKE The Dance. _A Song_ 4 PAUL CLAUDEL Le Précieux Sang. _Poem_ 5 Translation: The Precious Blood 6 JEAN COCTEAU La Mort des Jeunes Gens de la Divine Hellade. Fragment. _Poem_ 9 Translation: How the Young Men died in Hellas. A Fragment 11 JOSEPH CONRAD Poland Revisited 71 VINCENT D’INDY Musical Score: La légende de Saint Christophe (_Acte I, Sc. III_) 55 ELEONORA DUSE Libertà nella Vita 98 Translation: The Right to Liberty 98 JOHN GALSWORTHY Harvest 99 EDMUND GOSSE The Arrogance and Servility of Germany 101 ROBERT GRANT A Message. _Poem_ 14 THOMAS HARDY