" To liberate one's country!" she said. "It is terrible even to utter those words, they are so grand. "   Turgenev : "On the Eve." PRICE, ONE DOLLAR THE ALTRURIANS 12 Mount Morris Park West New York City 1908 This book is not copyrighted— How could it be?...

Bernard Shaw calls us a nation of villagers. To a large extent this appellation holds good. We are so self-sufficient unto ourselves that the most important events in the world leave us cold if they take place outside of the realm of the star-spangled banner. A wonderful and terrible thing is happening in the largest empire on earth; a downtrodden people is engaged in a death-grapple with its merciless rulers; and never were masters so inhuman, and never were people so heroic. In comparison with