THE "WAR WEEKLY" SIR, I am alarmed, but not surprised, at the pungent brilliancy (as well as the brevity) of the War Weekly articles. NEW HAVEN, CONN. ERVING WINSLOW. I got a dollar's SIR, I enclose my dollar for the weekly issue. worth of satisfaction out of the first issue. That paragraph, “The Week," on the first page dated from Washington, was great. BOSTON, MASS. HOWARD W. LANG. SIR, $1.00 a year? It is worth $1.00 a week to me to read what Colonel Harvey writes in your new War Weekly, so therefore please continue sending the Weekly to my address and find draft enclosed to cover my subscription for one year. TOLEDO, OHIO. M. M. MILler. SIR,-I enclose a dollar bill and wish my name listed for THE North AMERICAN REVIEW's War Weekly, and anticipate receiving my money's worth several times over. With full appreciation of the service you propose to render in this way, WARE, MASS. J. GARDNER LINCOLN. SIR,-Enclosed please find check for one year's subscription for the War Weekly, by far the best current events and war reading we have had in our home for some time. It ought to be a great success. DETROIT, MICH. CLARA E. BEEBE. SIR, Only the other day I remarked to a friend the pity of it that the clarion articles of Colonel Harvey were not appearing in a big metropolitan daily, so that they might go to hundreds of thousands instead of the fewer thousands of which the subscription lists of the REVIEW must consist. The " man in the street" is the fellow who most needs the virile quality of Colonel Harvey's words. I must have the War Weekly. Find my check for $1.00 and start me at the beginning. Could I not possibly send a War Weekly subscription to a friend in England? Will the British Government permit its receipt? I have been clipping and mailing articles from the REVIEW regularly. The people over there" need these articles. 66 NEW YORK. JOHN NORRIS MYERS. SIR,-The country is indebted to you for the War Weekly, which is a contribution of the finest and best patriotism. Courage coupled with judgment seems in these days to be a scarce article. Intelligent mice are quite plentiful, real men only here and there. You are performing a great service. You have the ear of the country, and the approval of thoughtful and patriotic men. INDIANAPOLIS. JAMES W. NOEL. SIR, While I cannot call myself technically a subscriber to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, yet it has been a long time since I missed a number. The passing of Harper's Weekly left a blank which I am delighted to know will be filled in part at least by the War Weekly, to be issued in connection with THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, for subscribers to the latter. I enclose herewith my check for $5.00, covering the two subscriptions. UNIONTOWN, PA. EDMUND H. REPPERT. SIR,-The first issue of the WAR WEEKLY has been received, and I am delighted with it. As I expected, it is a reincarnation of the old Harper's Weekly I knew and loved so well. Many of your readers regret that the prospect of being put into Burleson Gaol" seems to worry you so much. It needn't, for we shall surely bail you out, unless, of course, your persistence in indulging in constructive criticism of the administration of the war constitutes a crime so heinous that bail will be denied you. In that case we shall be sorry for you, of course, but we shall not suffer ourselves; for, without a doubt, you will write a "Martian's Progress" or something of the sort and let us have it in weekly instalments. With Colonel Roosevelt as your cell neighbor, it ought to make pretty lively reading. METUCHEN, N. J. GEORGE H. Lyne. SIR, Extremely interesting, frank in expression, clear in thought, and is bound to be appreciated by those who enjoy good literature. Please present my compliments to its distinguished editor. BOSTON, MASS. WILLIAM M. WOOD. SIR, Enclosed you have $5.00 covering price of subscription to THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW and the War Weekly, for one year beginning February 1, 1918. I have chanced upon a copy of the War Weekly and like it very much. I have been a render of the REVIEW, purchased irregularly at the news-stands. The late start and feverish haste of the whole round of our war preparations reminds me of the Irishman who ran to catch a train, and missed it. A bystander remarked: "Pat, you didn't run fast enough." Pat replied: "Begorra, I didn't start soon enough." Missed it! What would it have meant to the Allies in 1916 had we then been as far along as we are now?-A subject for a strong article in the War Weekly. NEWPORT, TENN. J. W. FISHER. We have reached, we are told, the turning point in the war. Perhaps it is so. If a turning point was desirable, and if the turn is for the better, we earnestly hope that it is so. True, we have heard of turning points before; which apparently did not materialize, or the turning of which was not decisive and effective. Perhaps we shall have better luck with this one; though we must confess that it has for some time seemed to us that what is most needed is to keep right straight on toward the goal which we long ago set. The present turning point, however, is said to be especially in the diplomacy of the war; the President's speech at Baltimore having indicated that he has definitely abandoned all further notions of peace through negotiations or through appeals to the democracy of Germany to revolt against autocracy or yet through efforts to drive wedges between Germany and Austria, and that he is now inflexibly determined to press the war to a victorious issue through" Force, force to the utmost; force without stint or limit; the righteous, triumphant force which shall make right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust." This is because he has reached a "moment of utter disillusionment in which he realizes the iniquity of Germany's purposes and the futility of negotiating with the mad dog of the nations. " That is well. It is gratifying to know that the President has at last become disillusioned, as most thoughtful men in Copyright, 1918, by NORTH American RevieW CORPORATION. All Rights Reserved. VOL. CCVII.-NO. 750 41 |