Their sufferings are majestic in simple heroism and uncomplaining endurance.  So majestic in proportion ought the relief to be.  The Belgian people are wards of the world.  In the circumstances the Belgian people are special wards of the one great country that is secure in its peace and that by its natural instincts of human sympathy and love of freedom is best suited to do the work that should be done for Belgium.  If every millionaire would give a thousand, if every man with $100 a month would give $10, the American Committee for the Relief of Belgium, with its splendid organization, its unrivaled efficiency, through which flows a tide of human sympathy, would be able to report at the end of the war that a small nation in misfortune had been saved from famine and despair by a great people far away, who had responded to the call, “Come over and help us!”

GILBERT PARKER.

A CORRECTION.

Under the head of “Russia’s ‘Little Brother,’” on Page 364 of this magazine history, in its issue of Dec. 26, 1914, appeared a statement taken from The New York Sun of Oct. 12, 1914, and attributed to George Bakhmeteff, Russian Ambassador at Washington.  Our attention has been called to the following editorial paragraph printed by The Sun on Oct. 14, embodying the Russian Ambassador’s denial of its authenticity: 

The Sun on Monday printed in good faith what it believed to be an authorized statement of the views and sentiments of Mr. George Bakhmeteff, Russian Ambassador to the United States.  Ambassador Bakhmeteff telegraphs to us from Washington as follows: 

“I most emphatically deny having spoken one single word to the reporter who published an interview with me in your paper.  I have not even seen one, and must insist on your publishing this very categorical and direct statement.”

Of course, we publish the Ambassador’s denial not less in justice to our readers and to ourselves than to him, at the same time expressing our extreme regret that The Sun should have been led to believe that it was presenting the Russian case as viewed by Mr. Bakhmeteff with his full acquiescence.

We add our cordial regret to that of The Sun that this repudiated statement should have gained further circulation.—­Editor.

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Certainly Not!

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

TURKEY, THE OFFICE BOY (to his master):  Please, Sir, can I have a day off?]