Excerpt from The World's Story, Vol. 15: A History of the World in Story, Song, and Art

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"The Cost of War", copyrighted by the Mechanics and Metals National Bank, New York, 1917.

"Following the Red Cross, " by Elizabeth Frazer: from "The Saturday Evening Post, " October, 1917.

"The Current History Magazine of the New York Times, " selections from articles by contributors and from the daily press as follows: "The Attack on Tsing-tau, " Jefferson Jones (in the "Minneapolis Journal"), January, 1915, "Wonders of War Surgery, " February, 1917, "Caillette Wood: An Episode of Verdun, " May, 1916, "A Great Fight in the Air, " July, 1917, Letter by Dr. Charles W. Eliot to the "New York Times, " November, 1914, "The Titanic Battles for Cambrai, " Philip Gibbs, December, 1917, "The British in the Promised Land, " W. T. Massey (in the London "Times").

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