[Illustration:  _—­From The Bystander, London._

JONATHAN:  “In spite ’f my noo-trality, John, d’ye notice how ’ffectionate I am?—­how I sympathise with yer?”

JOHN BULL:  “M—­m’yes, that’s all right, but I should like it better just now if you’d leave my hands a bit freer to fight those rascals as they deserve!”]

[German Cartoon]

John Bull at the Costumer’s

[Illustration:  _—­From Simplicissimus, Munich._

“What costume shall I choose so that none will recognize me?”

“Why don’t you go as a gentleman?”]

[English Cartoon]

William o’ the Wisp

[Illustration:  _—­From Punch, London._]

[German Cartoon]

American Neutrality

[Illustration:  _—­From Meggendorfer-Blaetter, Munich._]

[English Cartoon]

What the War Office Has to Put Up With

[Illustration:  _—­From Punch, London._

Demonstration of a device for catching bombs from airships.]

[German Cartoon]

Va Banque!

[Illustration:  _—­From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin._

The Monte Carlo habitue’s last play.]

[Italian Cartoon]

The Final Earthquake—­In Germany

[Illustration:  _—­From L’Asino, Rome._

By the grace of God and the will of the nation.

[The falling columns are marked “feudalism” and “militarism."]]

[German Cartoon]

From the English Eating-House

[Illustration:  _—­From Lustige Blaetter, Berlin._

England utilizes the refuse of her domestic establishment as cannon fodder.]

[English Cartoon]

The Bread-Winner

[Illustration:  _—­From Punch, London._]

[Italian Cartoon]

Italy’s Neutrality

[Illustration:  _—­From L’Asino, Rome._

Every day the dance becomes more difficult.

(The dancer is the German Ambassador, von Buelow.)]

[English Cartoon]

Busy Packing

[Illustration:  _—­From The Bystander, London._

SULTAN MEHMED:  “’Am I there’?!!  I should rather think I am!!  We’re being ‘moved,’ you know.  And the hammering outside is something too awful!!”

His ISLAMIC MAJESTY HADJI GUILLIOUN:  “Kismet, my boy, Kismet!  Besides, I feel sure you’ll be awfully pleased with Asia Minor—­so quiet!—­we Mussulmans always feel so at home there, too!”

(The English preface their telephone conversations with “Are you there?” instead of “Hello!")]

[German Cartoon]

In the Cause of Culture

[Illustration:  _—­From Simplicissimus, Munich._

“Papa has gone away to Europe to protect the nice Englishmen from the savages.  If you are very good, perhaps he will bring you back a nice German beefsteak.”]

[English Cartoon]

Queen Elizabeth in the Dardanelles