f we are to regain our peace and freedom
and build up a better civilization on the ruins of this that is
crumbling.

That task, we trust, will some day lie before us. When at last our
victorious fleets and armies meet together, and the allied nations of
East and West set themselves to restore the well-being of many millions
of ruined homes, France and Great Britain will assuredly bring their
large contributions of good-will and wisdom, but your country will have
something to contribute which is all its own. It is not only because of
your valor in war and your achievements in art, science, and letters
that we rejoice to have you for allies and friends; it is for some
quality in Russia herself, something both profound and humane, of which
these achievements are the outcome and the expression.

You, like us, entered upon this war to defend a weak and threatened
nation, which trusted you, against the lawless aggression of a strong
military power; you, like us, have continued it as a war of self-defense
and self-emancipation. When the end comes and we can breathe again, we
will help one another to remember the spirit in which our allied nations
took up arms, and thus work together in a changed Europe to protect the
weak, to liberate the oppressed, and to bring eventual healing to the
wounds inflicted on suffering mankind both by ourselves and our enemies.

With assurances of our friendship and gratitude, we sign ourselves,

WILLIAM ARCHER, J.W. MACKAIL,
MAURICE BARING, JOHN MASEFIELD,
J.M. BARRIE, A.E.W. MASON,
ARNOLD BENNETT, AYLMER MAUDE,
A.C. BRADLEY, ALICE MEYNELL,
ROBERT BRIDGES, GILBERT MURRAY,
HALL CAINE, HENRY NEWBOLT,
G.K. CHESTERTON, GILBERT PARKER,
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, ERNEST DE SELINCOURT,
NEVILL FORBES, MAY SINCLAIR,
JOHN GALSWORTHY, D. MACKENZIE WALLACE,
CONSTANCE GARNETT, MARY A. WARD,
EDWARD GARNETT, WILLIAM WATSON,
A.P. GOUDY, H.G. WELLS,
THOMAS HARDY, MARGARET L. WOODS,
JANE HARRISON, C. HAGBERG WRIGHT.
ANTHONY HOPE,
HENRY JAMES,

Russia and Europe's War

By Paul Vinogradoff.

_The following letter to The London Times by Paul Vinogradoff,
Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford University,
appeared on Sept. 14, 1914. Prof. Vinogradoff was invited to
return to Russia a few years ago to become a Minister of
State, but on going there he found the Ministry not liberal