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KULTUR IN CARTOONS
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KULTUR

IN

CARTOONS
BY
LOUIS   RAEMAEKERS

WITH ACCOMPANYING NOTES BY
WELL-KNOWN ENGLISH WRITERS

A Companion Volume to “Raemaekers’ Cartoons”
Published 1916, and now issued by
The Century Co.



NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1917
Copyright, 1917, by
THE CENTURY CO.
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Published October 1917
 Publishers’ Announcement
Purchasers of “Kultur in Cartoons” may be interested to know that thispresent work is a companion volume to “Raemaekers’ Cartoons,” issued in1916. “Raemaekers’ Cartoons” includes many of the artist’s earlier work,dealing particularly with the Belgian inferno. The two volumes are alikein size and form, and together constitute a thoroughly representativecollection of Raemaekers’ drawings.
The Century Co.
 Foreword
BY
J. Murray Allison
  
A year has passed since the first volume of Raemaekers’ work(“Raemaekers’ Cartoons,” Century Co.), was published in the UnitedStates.
At that time Raemaekers was practically unknown in this country, just ashe was unknown in England and France until January, 1916, when his workwas first exhibited in the British Capital.
The story of Raemaekers’ reception in London and Paris has been writtenin the introduction to “Raemaekers’ Cartoons.”
When his cartoons began to reach America toward the end of 1916 thiscountry was neutral. It is with peculiar satisfaction, therefore, that Ibase this brief foreword upon press extracts published prior toAmerica’s participation in the war.
If it were possible to discover to-day an individual who was entirelyignorant as to the causes and conduct of the war, he would, after aninspection of a hundred or more of these cartoons, probably utter hisconviction somewhat as follows: “I do not believe that these drawingshave the slightest relation to the truth; I do not believe that it ispossible for such things to happen in the twentieth century.” He wouldbe quite justified, in his ignorance of what has happened in Europe, inexpressing such an opinion, just as any of us, with the possibleexception of the disciples of Bernhardi himself, would have beenjustified in expressing a similar view in July, 1914.
What is the view of all informed people to-day? “To Raemaekers the waris not a topic, or a subject for charity. It is a vivid heartrendingreality,” says the New York “Evening Post,” “and you come away from therooms where his cartoons now hang so aware of what war is that mentalneutrality is for                         
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