The watchers of the TROAD (Poem) 139
  By Harry Lyman Koopman

The union of central Europe 140
  By Franz von Liszt

Two poor little Belgian fledglings 143
  By Pierre Loti

What the Germans desire 144
  By Gustaf Sioesteen

Address to King Albert of Belgium 147
  By Emile Verhaeren

Foreshadowing A new phase of war 148
  By Lloyd George, British Chancellor of the Exchequer

Britain’s Unsheathed sword 153
  By H.H.  Asquith, England’s Prime Minister

Sweden’s Scandinavian leadership (With Map) 160
  By a Swedish Political Expert

From England (Poem) 164
  By Maurice Hewlett

WAR CORRESPONDENCE 165

The dragon’s teeth (Poem) 181
  By Caroline Duer

The greatest of campaigns (With Map) 182
  The French Official Account

By the north sea (Poem) 185
  By W.L.  Courtney

When Marthe Chenal sang the “Marseillaise” 187
  By Wythe Williams

A war of commerce to follow 189
  By Sir William Ramsay

Belgium (Poem) 192
  By Edith Wharton

Desired peace terms for Europe 193
  By Proponents for the Allies and for Germany

The British volunteers (Poem) 195
  By Katherine D.M.  Simons, Jr.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR 196

[Illustration:  H.M.  Hussein kemal

The New Sultan of Egypt, Which Was Recently Declared a British
Protectorate]

[Illustration:  The Russian royal family

The Children of the Czar Have Inherited the Regal Beauty of Their Mother