BY MARIE QUEEN OF RUMANIA ALL PROFITS FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK WILL BE PAID TO THE BRITISH RED CROSS SOCIETY FOR WORK IN RUMANIA Published for The Times BY HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON —— NEW YORK —— TORONTO MCMXVI...

The Queen of a small Country! Those who are accustomed to see rulers of greater lands can little understand what it means. It means work and anxiety and hope, and great toiling for small results. But the field is large, and, if the heart be willing, great is the work. When young I thought it all work, uphill work; but the passing years brought another knowledge, a blessed knowledge, and now I know. This is a small country, a new country, but it is a country I love. I want others to love it also;

Rumania, like the other small nations, is paying a bloody price for her vindication of the principles of Right—the bedrock of the Allied cause. Her plucky intervention in the Great War, notwithstanding what had befallen Belgium, Serbia and Montenegro; the implicit faith of her people in the righteousness of the Allied cause; and the gallantry of her troops excite the admiration of all the Free Races. The British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John has rendered great assistance on the battlef