New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1916. Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. 330 p.; 20 cm. (8 inches). Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped titles. The cloth has an attractive stylized floral pattern impressed on the spine and both covers. No dust jacket. Top page edges gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Some pages are unopened; some were somewhat carelessly opened. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Judith D. Skidmore. Published during the First World War, this volume contains all of the essays and speeches relating to the war by the Belgian poet, playwright, and essayist, Maurice Maeterlinck, that had been published or delivered up to that time. The volume concludes with the first authorized English translation of Maeterlinck's Massacre of the Innocents, originally published in 1886. In Very Good Condition: corners and edges are rubbed; pages are clean and tight.. First Edition. Very Good.