Photograph by Miss D. Compton Collier]
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RAEMAEKERS' CARTOONS
WITH ACCOMPANYING NOTES BY WELL-KNOWN ENGLISH WRITERS
WITH AN APPRECIATION FROM H. H. ASQUITH, PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1916
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Copyright, 1916, by DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian.
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LIST OF CARTOONS AND THE DESCRIPTIVE NOTES PAGE PORTRAIT OF LOUIS RAEMAEKERS INTRODUCTION Francis Stopford AN APPRECIATION FROM THE PRIME MINISTER H. H. Asquith CHRISTENDOM AFTER TWENTY CENTURIES Francis Stopford 8 A STABLE PEACE Eden Phillpotts 10 THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS E. Charles Vivian 12 BERNHARDIISM Hilaire Belloc 14 FROM LIEGE TO AIX-LA-CHAPELLE Francis Stopford 16 SPOILS FOR THE VICTORS Hilaire Belloc 18 THE VERY STONES CRY OUT Bernard Vaughan, S. J. 20 SATAN'S PARTNER G. K. Chesterton 22 THROWN TO THE SWINE The Dean of St. Paul's 24 THE LAND MINE Herbert Warren 26 "FOR YOUR MOTHERLAND" Eden Phillpotts 28 THE GERMAN LOAN E. Charles Vivian 30 EUROPE, 1916 G. K. Chesterton 32 THE NEXT TO BE KICKED OUT--DUMBA'S MASTER Arthur Pollen 34 THE FRIENDLY VISITOR H. DeVere Stacpoole 36 "TO YOUR HEALTH, CIVILIZATION!" The Dean of St. Paul's 38 FOX TIRPITZ PREACHING TO THE GEESE Herbert Warren 40 THE PRISONERS Eden Phillpotts 42 IT'S UNBELIEVABLE Hilaire Belloc 44 KREUZLAND, KREUZLAND UeBER ALLES The Dean of St. Paul's 38 THE EX-CONVICT Hilaire Belloc 48 MISS CAVELL G. K. Chesterton 50 THE HOSTAGES John Oxenham 52 KING ALBERT'S ANSWER TO THE POPE E. Charles Vivian 54 THE GAS FIEND Eden Phillpotts 56 THE GERMAN TANGO John Buchan 58 THE ZEPPELIN
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Raemaekers' Cartoons by Louis Raemaekers
- 2: Triumph w
- 3: Raemaekers' Cartoons by Louis Raemaekers
- 4: Many leading newspapers reproducing them
- 5: For each cartoon of Raemaekers
- 6: CHRISTENDOM AFTER TWENTY CENTURIESThese pictures
- 7: Vengeful women of the picture and must visualize
- 8: We had massacres upon massacres Louvain
- 9: FROM LIEGE TO AIX LA CHAPELLE Moreover
- 10: Prussianized Germany has the monopoly of frightfulness
- 11: Death with no very positive suggestion
- 12: England smiled Beside your cradle
- 13: Needed many other things to make that pedestal secure
- 14: No symbolical figure posed for show
- 15: It is true that some of the nations engaged are guiltless
- 16: Illustration FOX TIRPITZ PREACHING TO THE GEESE You see
- 17: And the other apparently nasty Germany which raped
- 18: Therefore the Lusitania must be sunk
- 19: And it is neither the spirit of a tyrant nor of a booby
- 20: Illustration THE HOSTAGES Father
- 21: Shall we condemn pictures or statues
- 22: Is whirling in the tango with a skeleton partner
- 23: The last Saxon before the last Bavarian
- 24: The Hohenzollern here makes a sandbag of the Hapsburg
- 25: The poor little cub whimpers pitifully
- 26: The modern Ahasuerus has no surety of an eventual peace
- 27: What would be said of the surgeon who
- 28: THE SEA MINEWhen Raemaekers pictures Von Tirpitz to us
- 29: Thy poor humanity cast off to sate thy pride
- 30: The Kaiser counts the head of British merchantmen sunk
- 31: Illustration GOTT STRAFE ITALIEN
- 32: The Turkish armies held from pouring on Russia and Serbia
- 33: Faced by an overwhelming weight of metal
- 34: As God allowed His only Son to be crucified
- 35: With its opportunities for chivalry
- 36: In the Kiel Canal at all events
- 37: Nor hope to void thy countability
- 38: Illustration THE JUNKER What I have most admired in you
- 39: BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBERThe Committee of Enquiry
- 40: Partnership with Germany is another matter
- 41: He who lies there was a foolish idealist
- 42: We will easily arrange an agreement
- 43: And the most Kultured of the Kultured
- 44: Ten years later Ferdinand the usurper descended upon Sofia
- 45: Or other seat of Kultur and War Loan finance
- 46: THEIR BERESINA Is it still a long way to the Beresina
- 47: I must always deny having been there
- 48: For years upon years the Sultan Abdul Hamid was Turkey
- 49: Illustration THE MARSHES OF PINSK
- 50: But Ferdinand of Bulgaria is not a genuine thing
- 51: THE LATIN SISTERSThe Latin Sisters
- 52: Her only method is terror and her only aim loot
- 53: Of the last phase of Prussian kultur
- 54: And it is not piracy that can save her
- 55: All pillage is expressly forbidden
- 56: Von Kluck was heading for Paris
- 57: The meanest and basest of cheats
- 58: Raemaekers the people will see to it themselves
- 59: And in the background other sergents
- 60: Spoken the prologue only of the frightful tragedy
- 61: As this very von Bethmann Hollweg declared
- 62: And they are all awkward for the liar
- 63: The bombardment at Rheims Cathedral
- 64: And especially the higher politics
- 65: THE LOAN GAMERaemaekers is pitiless
- 66: In considering this Liebknecht
- 67: Strengthened by his sufferings
- 68: Is not this the age of science and Kultur
- 69: Artificial restrictions in the use of force
- 70: That has happened since Raemaekers made his picture
- 71: Gives a biologically just decision
- 72: So argues the self satisfied burgher
- 73: But we never heard of Unser Fritz
- 74: Nish is a town of little more than 20
- 75: But so far the game has miscarried
- 76: And then came the sinking of the Hesperia
- 77: But the most successful demagogue generally abuses it
- 78: Of which the golden trappings are golden chains
- 79: So far as Germania represents the Devil and all his works
- 80: The artist's sympathy is wholly with Serbia
- 81: The scientific name of the true dog is Canis familiaris
- 82: The case of the Vlaamsche Sten
- 83: I cannot envisage Huns playing tennis at Wimbledon
- 84: When the Dove of Peace does come
- 85: We are pledged to restore Belgium
- 86: Henceforth we shall envisage Satan as a Hun
- 87: The London Scottish Territorials
- 88: Verdun was the last and will not be the least
- 89: But young William is not a professional
- 90: In the matter of sacrifice of life
- 91: How thin the veneer of a sportsmanship was upon the Kaiser
- 92: In which patriotism is the sole duty
- 93: That if he rescued the crew of the Zeppelin
- 94: The struggles of the Vilna salient
- 95: For an invasion by the Germans
- 96: And destruction is not yet done
- 97: With torn and ruffled feathers
- 98: For the sake of contrast with the companion cartoon