This book is a communication with Judge David P. Hatch through automatic writing and what he had to say about the Great War. To receive genuine communications from the other world involves sacrifice on the part of the amanuensis, even in the protected quiet of a country home. To do it in a great rushing city like New York, amidst the distractions of a complex social life, and during a war like this by whose horrors the "sensitive" is especially buffetted, and in a clashing pro-German pro- Allies environment, has been an education in self-control. But the war cannot last forever, and some day joy will come back to the world. New York, Sept. , 1916. Elsa Barker