Thus, from Palos, in 1492, to Sarajevo, in 1914, the hand of Europe has drawn us ever and ever closer. Yes, indeed; we are all in the same boat. Europe has never forgotten some words spoken here once: "That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." She waited to hear us repeat that in some form when The Hague conventions we signed were torn to scraps of paper. Perhaps nothing save calamity will teach us what Europe is thankful to have learned again--that some things are worse than war, and that you can pay too high a price for peace; but that you cannot pay too high for the finding and keeping of your own soul. [FINIS] * * * * * Printed in United States of America. -------------------------------------------- |The following pages contain advertisements| | of Macmillan books by the same author| -------------------------------------------- By OWEN WISTER =The Virginian= =A Horseman of the Plains= WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY ARTHUR I. KELLER _Cloth, 12mo, $1.50_ "There is not a page in Mr. Wister's new book which is not interesting. This is its first great merit, that it arouses the sympathy of the reader and holds him absorbed and amused to the end. It does a great deal more for him. 'Whoever reads the first page will find it next to impossible to put the book down until he has read every one of the five hundred and four in the book, and then he will wish there were more of them.'"--_New York Tribune._ "Mr. Wister has drawn real men and real women.... In 'The Virginian' he has put forth a book that will be remembered and read with interest many years hence."--_Chicago American._ "The story is human and alive. It has the 'touch and go' of the vibrating life of the expansive American West and puts the country and the people vividly before the reader."--_Philadelphia Times-Saturday Review._ =Members of the Family= =Vivid Sketches of Life on the Western Plains= _Decorated cloth, 12mo, $1.25_ "Highly finished and serves to mirror the West of thirty years ago, when the picturesque cowboy was the dominant figure in every Western settlement."--_San Francisco Chronicle._ "A legitimate successor to 'The Virginian,' a story of Western tales, full of color and outdoors, and a shrewd relish of humor."--_Albany Argus._