endency
of the time and the respect which has grown up for the rights of
minorities and nationalities. Now, not to reckon with such things was
stupid, unless they can win temporary justification by immediate
success.

What success is possible for those who thus openly outrage humanity
remains to be seen; but they cannot be allowed the advantage of any
doubt as to what they are about. Those who fight for them will fight for
"the devil and all his works"; and those who fight against them will be
fighting in the holy cause of humanity and the law of love. If the
advocacy of their bad principles and their diabolical conduct do not set
the whole world against them, then the world is worse than I think. My
belief is that there are yet millions of their own countrymen who have
not bowed the knee to Satan, and who will be as much shocked as we are;
and that this internal moral disruption will much hamper them. This
morning I have a legal notice sent me from a German resident in England
announcing that he has changed his name, for shame (I suppose) of his
Fatherland.

All their apology throughout has been a clumsy tissue of
self-contradictory lies, and their occasional hypocrisy has been hastily
pretended and ill-conceived. The particular contention against us--that
we were betraying the cause of civilization by supporting the barbarous
Slav--does not come very convincingly from them if their apostle is
Nietzsche, while the Russian prophet is Tolstoy.

The infernal machine which has been scientifically preparing for the
last twenty-five years is now on its wild career like one of Mr. Wells's
inventions, and wherever it goes it will leave desolation behind it and
put all material progress back for at least half a century. There was
never anything in the world worthier of extermination, and it is the
plain duty of all civilized nations to unite to drive it back into its
home and exterminate it there. I am, &c.,

ROBERT BRIDGES.

Sept. 1.

*English Artists' Protest*

_Art lovers in Great Britain have drawn up a protest against the
vandalism of German soldiers. Copies of this protest have been sent
to the Comte de Lalaing, Belgian Minister in London; the American
Ambassador, with a humble request that it may be forwarded to the
President of the United States; and Baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Art
Adviser to the Belgian Government. Those who have signed include
well-known collectors,