An inevitable consequence is that in future the movements and proceedings of Germans in other countries will be watched with intense suspicion, and if Governments do not prevent the sort of thing depicted by Mr. Raemaekers the people will see to it themselves. The cartoon is not, of course, intended to reflect personally on the owner of Krupp’s works, who is said to be a gentle-minded and blameless lady. It is her misfortune to be associated by the chance of inheritance with the German war machine and one of the underhand methods by which it has pursued its aims. A. SHADWELL [Illustration: ON CONCRETE FOUNDATIONS BIG BERTHA: “What a charming view over Flushing harbour! May I build a villa here?”] Pallas Athene “Has it come to this?” Well may the Goddess ask this question. Times are indeed changed since the heroic days. Germany has still her great Greek scholars, one or two of them among the greatest living, men who know, and can feel, the spirit, as well as the letter, of the old Classics. Do they remember to-day what the relation of the Goddess of Wisdom was to the God of War, in Homer, when, to use the Latin names which are perhaps more familiar to the general reader than the Greek, Mars “indulged in lawless rage,” and Jove sent Juno and Minerva to check his “frightfulness”? “Go! and the great Minerva be thine aid; To tame the monster-god Minerva knows, And oft afflicts his brutal breast with woes.” and how the hero Diomede, with Minerva’s aid, wounded the divine bully and sent him bellowing and whimpering back, only to hear from his father the just rebuke:-- “To me, perfidious! this lamenting strain? Of lawless force shall lawless Mars complain? Of all the gods who tread the spangled skies, Thou most unjust, most odious in our eyes! Inhuman discord is thy dear delight, The waste of slaughter, and the rage of fight!” It is most true. Such has ever been War for War’s sake, and when the Germans themselves are wounded and beaten, they complain like Mars of old of “lawless force.” But Raemaekers has introduced another touch more Roman than Greek, and reminding us perhaps of Tacitus rather than of Homer. Who was Caligula, and what does his name mean? “Little Jackboots,” in his childhood the spoiled child of the camp, as a man, and Cæsar, the first of the thoroughly mad, as well as bad, Emperors of Rome, the first to claim divine honours in his lifetime, to pose as an artist and an architect, an orator and a _littérateur_, to have executions carried out under his own eyes, and while he was at meals; who made himself a God, and his horse a Consul. Minerva blacking the boots of Caligula--it is a clever combination!