THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT) 1210
_By Annie Vivanti Chartres_

THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem) 1216
_By Alice Meynell_

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 1224

TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem) 1228
_By William Watson_

[Illustration: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW]

[Illustration: ARNOLD BENNETT. _See Page_ 60]




"Common Sense About the War"

By George Bernard Shaw.


I.

"_Let a European war break out--the war, perhaps, between the
Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists
and politicians in England and Germany contemplate with criminal
levity. If the combatants prove to be equally balanced, it may,