THE DRAMA OF 365 DAYS
that Russian mobilization was a process inevitably so slow that the German armies had flung themselves upon Belgium twelve days before the Russian advance began.
Then we had heard it said by the German Churchmen that in taking the side of Russia we, British and French people, leaders among the enlightened races, were helping Muscovite barbarians to oppose the cause of civilization. But since Louvain, Termonde, and Rheims, not to speak of the unnameable iniquities of Liège, the world knows where the barbaric spirit of Europe had its central home—in Berlin, not in Petrograd; in the proud hearts of the German over-lords, not the meek ones of the Russian peasantry.
THE SHADOW OF THE GREAT DEATH
The truth, as everybody knows who knows
Russia, is that " barbarous," the classic taunt
of the German against Russia, is, of all words,
the least proper as a description of the Russian
mind and character. I have myself been only
once in Russia, but it was on a long visit and
under conditions which were calculated, beyond
anything that has happened since down to
to-day, to reveal to me the whole secret of the
Russian soul. In 1892, when the cholera had
come sweeping up from the south, I travelled for
