NUMBER I. |
WHAT MEN OF LETTERS SAY |
| | Page |
| COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR | [11] |
| By George Bernard Shaw |
| SHAW'S NONSENSE ABOUT BELGIUM | [60] |
| By Arnold Bennett |
| BENNETT STATES THE GERMAN CASE | [63] |
| By George Bernard Shaw |
| FLAWS IN SHAW'S LOGIC | [65] |
| By Cunninghame Graham |
| EDITORIAL COMMENT ON SHAW | [66] |
| SHAW EMPTY OF GOOD SENSE | [68] |
| By Christabel Pankhurst |
| COMMENT BY READING OF SHAW | [73] |
| OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON | [76] |
| By George Bernard Shaw |
| A GERMAN LETTER TO G. BERNARD SHAW | [80] |
| By Herbert Eulenberg |
| BRITISH AUTHORS DEFEND ENGLAND'S WAR | [82] |
| With Facsimile Signatures |
| THE FOURTH OF AUGUST--EUROPE AT WAR | [87] |
| By H. G. Wells |
| IF THE GERMANS RAID ENGLAND | [89] |
| By H. G. Wells |
| SIR OLIVER LODGE'S COMMENT | [92] |
| WHAT THE GERMAN CONSCRIPT THINKS | [93] |
| By Arnold Bennett |
| FELIX ADLER'S COMMENT | [95] |
| WHEN PEACE IS SERIOUSLY DESIRED | [97] |
| By Arnold Bennett |
| BARRIE AT BAY: WHICH WAS BROWN? | [100] |
| An Interview on the War |
| A CREDO FOR KEEPING FAITH | [102] |
| By John Galsworthy |
| HARD BLOWS, NOT HARD WORDS | [103] |
| By Jerome K. Jerome |
| "AS THEY TESTED OUR FATHERS" | [106] |
| By Rudyard Kipling |
| KIPLING AND "THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR" | [107] |
| ON THE IMPENDING CRISIS | [107] |
| By Norman Angell |
| WHY ENGLAND CAME TO BE IN IT | [108] |
| By Gilbert K. Chesterton |
| SOUTH AFRICA'S BOERS AND BRITONS | [125] |
| By H. Rider Haggard |
| CAPT. MARK HAGGARD'S DEATH IN BATTLE | [128] |
| By H. Rider Haggard |
| AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR | [129] |
| By Robert Bridges |
| ENGLISH ARTISTS' PROTEST | [130] |
| TO ARMS! | [132] |
| By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| CONAN DOYLE ON BRITISH MILITARISM | [140] |
| THE NEED OF BEING MERCILESS | [144] |
| By Maurice Maeterlinck |
| LETTERS TO DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER | [146] |
| By Baron d'Estournelles de Constant |
| THE VITAL ENERGIES OF FRANCE | [153] |
| By Henri Bergson |
| FRANCE THROUGH ENGLISH EYES | [153] |
| With Rene Bazin's Appreciation |
| THE SOLDIER OF 1914 | [156] |
| By Rene Doumic |
| GERMANY'S CIVILIZED BARBARISM | [160] |
| By Emile Boutroux |
| THE GERMAN RELIGION OF DUTY | [170] |
| By Gabriele Reuter |
| A LETTER TO GERHART HAUPTMANN | [174] |
| By Romain Rolland |
| A REPLY TO ROLLAND | [175] |
| By Gerhart Hauptmann |
| ANOTHER REPLY TO ROLLAND | [176] |
| By Karl Wolfskehl |
| ARE WE BARBARIANS? | [178] |
| By Gerhart Hauptmann |
| TO AMERICANS FROM A GERMAN FRIEND | [180] |
| By Ludwig Fulda |
| APPEAL TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD | [185] |
| By Professors of Germany |
| APPEAL OF THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES | [187] |
| REPLY TO THE GERMAN PROFESSORS | [188] |
| By British Scholars |
| CONCERNING THE GERMAN PROFESSORS | [192] |
| By Frederic Harrison |
| THE REPLY FROM FRANCE | [194] |
| By M. Yves Guyot and Prof Bellet |
| TO AMERICANS IN GERMANY | [198] |
| By Prof. Adolf von Harnack |
| A REPLY TO PROF. HARNACK | [201] |
| By Some British Theologians |
| PROF. HARNACK IN REBUTTAL | [203] |
| THE CAUSES OF THE WAR | [206] |
| By Theodore Niemeyer |
| COMMENT BY DR. MAX WALTER | [208] |
NUMBER II. |
WHO BEGAN THE WAR AND WHY? |
| SPEECHES BY KAISER WILHELM II. | 210 |
| THE MIGHTY FATE OF EUROPE | 219 |
| As Interpreted by Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor. |
| AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S VERSION OF THE WAR | 226 |
| By Kaiser Frawz Josef and Count Berchtold |
| A GERMAN REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE | 228 |
| Certified by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, German ex-Colonial Secretary |
| "TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY" | 244 |
| Attested by Thirty-four German Dignitaries |
| SPECULATIONS ABOUT PEACE, SEPTEMBER, 1914 | 273 |
| Report by James W. Gerard, American Ambassador at Berlin, to President Wilson. |
| FIRST WARNINGS OF EUROPE'S PERIL | 277 |
| Speeches by British Ministers |
| GREAT BRITAIN'S MOBILIZATION | 294 |
| Measures Taken Throughout the Empire Upon the Outbreak of War |
| SUMMONS OF THE NATION TO ARMS | 308 |
| British People Roused by Their Leaders |
| TEACHINGS OF GEN. VON BERNHARDI | 343 |
| By Viscount Bryce |
| ENTRANCE OF FRANCE INTO THE WAR | 350 |
| By President Poincare and Premier Viviani |
| RUSSIA TO HER ENEMY | 358 |
| "THE FACTS ABOUT BELGIUM" | 365 |
| Statement Issued by the Belgian Legation at Washington |
| BELGO-BRITISH PLOT ALLEGED BY GERMANY | 369 |
| Statement Issued by German Embassy at Washington, Oct. 13. |
| ATROCITIES OF THE WAR | 374 |
| BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS CATHEDRAL | 392 |
| Protest Issued to Neutral Powers from French Foreign Office, Bordeaux, Sept. 21. |
| THE SOCIALISTS' PART | 397 |
NUMBER III. |
WHAT AMERICANS SAY TO EUROPE |
| IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CIVILIZATION | 413 |
| Argued by James M. Beck |
| CRITICS DISPUTE MR. BECK | 431 |
| DEFENSE OF THE DUAL ALLIANCE--REPLY | 438 |
| By Dr. Edmund von Mach |
| WHAT GLADSTONE SAID ABOUT BELGIUM | 448 |
| By George Louis Beer |
| FIGHT TO THE BITTER END | 451 |
| An Interview with Andrew Carnegie |
| WOMAN AND WAR--"Shot, Tell His Mother" (Poem) | 458 |
| By W.E.P. French, Captain, U.S. Army |
| THE WAY TO PEACE | 459 |
| An Interview with Jacob H. Schiff |
| PROF. MATHER ON MR. SCHIFF | 464 |
| THE ELIOT-SCHIFF LETTERS | 465 |
| By Jacob H. Schiff and Charles W. Eliot |
| LA CATHEDRALE (Poem Translated by Frances C. Fay) | 472 |
| By Edmond Rostand |
| PROBABLE CAUSES AND OUTCOME OF THE WAR | 473 |
| Series of Five Letters by Charles W. Eliot, with Related Correspondence |
| THE LORD OF HOSTS (Poem) | 501 |
| By Joseph B. Gilder |
| A WAR OF DISHONOR | 502 |
| By David Starr Jordan |
| MIGHT OR RIGHT | 503 |
| By John Grier Hibben |
| JEANNE D'ARC--1914 (Poem) | 506 |
| By Alma Durant Nicholson |
| THE KAISER AND BELGIUM (With controversial letters) | 507 |
| By John W. Burgess |
| AMERICA'S PERIL IN JUDGING GERMANY | 515 |
| By William M. Sloane |
| POSSIBLE PROFITS FROM WAR | 526 |
| Interview with Franklin H. Giddings |
| "TO AMERICANS LEAVING GERMANY" | 533 |
| A German Circular |
| GERMAN DECLARATIONS | 534 |
| By Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Haeckel |
| THE EUCKEN AND HAECKEL CHARGES | 537 |
| By John Warbeke |
| CONCERNING GERMAN CULTURE | 541 |
| By Brander Matthews |
| CULTURE VS. KULTUR | 543 |
| By Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. |
| THE TRESPASS IN BELGIUM | 545 |
| By John Grier Hibben |
| APPORTIONING THE BLAME | 548 |
| By Arthur v. Briesen |
| PARTING (Poem) | 553 |
| By Louise von Wetter |
| FRENCH HATE AND ENGLISH JEALOUSY | 554 |
| By Kuno Francke |
| IN DEFENSE OF AUSTRIA | 559 |
| By Baron L. Hengelmuller |
| RUSSIAN ATROCITIES | 563 |
| By George Haven Putnam |
| "THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE" | 565 |
| Interview with Nicholas Murray Butler |
| A NEW WORLD MAP | 571 |
| By Wilhelm Ostwald |
| THE VERDICT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE | 573 |
| By Newell Dwight Hillis |
| TIPPERARY (Poem) | 581 |
| By John B. Kennedy |
| AS AMERICA SEES THE WAR | 582 |
| By Harold Begbie |
| TO MELOS, POMEGRANATE ISLE (Poem) | 587 |
| By Grace Harriet Macurdy |
| WHAT AMERICA CAN DO | 588 |
| By Lord Channing of Wellingborough |
| TO A COUSIN GERMAN (Poem) | 593 |
| By Adeline Adams |
| WHAT THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS MAY BE | 594 |
| By Irving Fisher |
| EFFECTS OF WAR ON AMERICA | 600 |
| By Roland G. Usher |
| GERMANY OF THE FUTURE | 605 |
| Interview with M. de Lapredelle |
| GERMANY THE AGGRESSOR | 609 |
| By Albert Sauveur |
| MILITARISM AND CHRISTIANITY | 610 |
| By Lyman Abbott |
| VIGIL (Poem) | 612 |
| By Hortense Flexner |
| NIETZSCHE AND GERMAN CULTURE | 613 |
| By Abraham Solomon |
| BELGIUM'S BITTER NEED | 614 |
| By Sir Gilbert Parker |
NUMBER IV. |
THE WAR AT CLOSE QUARTERS |
| SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY | 619 |
| Famous Dispatches of the British Commander in Chief to Lord Kitchener |
| STORY OF THE "EYE WITNESS" | 650 |
| By Col. E.D. Swinton of the Intelligence Department of the British General Staff |
| THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY (Poem) | 678 |
| By Edward Neville Vose |
| THE GERMAN ENTRY INTO BRUSSELS (With Map) | 679 |
| By John Boon |
| THE FALL OF ANTWERP | 682 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle |
| AS THE FRENCH FELL BACK ON PARIS | 689 |
| By G. H. Perris |
| THE RETREAT TO PARIS | 691 |
| By Philip Gibbs |
| A ZOUAVE'S STORY | 704 |
| By Philip Gibbs |
| WHEN WAR BURST ON ARRAS | 707 |
| By a Special Correspondent |
| THE BATTLES IN BELGIUM (With Map) | 711 |
| By The Associated Press |
| SEEKING WOUNDED ON BATTLE FRONT | 714 |
| By Philip Gibbs |
| AT THE KAISER'S HEADQUARTERS | 718 |
| By Cyril Brown of The New York Times |
| HOW THE BELGIANS FIGHT | 725 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily News |
| A VISIT TO THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE | 727 |
| By a Correspondent of The New York Times |
| UNBURIED DEAD STREW LORRAINE (With Map) | 729 |
| By Philip Gibbs |
| ALONG THE GERMAN LINES NEAR METZ | 731 |
| By The Associated Press |
| THE SLAUGHTER IN ALSACE | 736 |
| By John H. Cox |
| RENNENKAMPF ON THE RUSSIAN BORDER | 738 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle |
| THE FIRST FIGHT AT LODZ (With Map) | 740 |
| By Perceval Gibbon |
| THE FIRST INVASION OF SERBIA (With Map) | 742 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Standard |
| THE ATTACK ON TSING-TAU | 745 |
| By Jefferson Jones |
| THE GERMAN ATTACK ON TAHITI | 748 |
| As Told by Miss Geni La France, an Eyewitness |
| THE BLOODLESS CAPTURE OF GERMAN SAMOA | 749 |
| By Malcolm Ross, F.R.G.S. |
| HOW THE CRESSY SANK | 752 |
| By Edgar Rowan |
| GERMAN STORY OF THE HELIGOLAND FIGHT | 754 |
| By a Special Correspondent of The New York Times |
| THE SINKING OF THE CRESSY AND THE HOGUE | 755 |
| By the Senior Surviving Officers, Commander Bertram W.L. Nicholson and |
| Commander Reginald A. Norton |
| THE SINKING OF THE HAWKE | 757 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle |
| THE EMDEN'S LAST FIGHT | 758 |
| By the Cable Operator at Cocos Islands |
| CROWDS SEE THE NIGER SINK | 760 |
| By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle |
| LIEUTENANT WEDDIGEN'S OWN STORY | 762 |
| By Herbert B. Swope and Capt. Lieut. Otto Weddigen |
| THE SOLILOQUY OF AN OLD SOLDIER (Poem) | 764 |
| By O.C.A. Child |
| THE EFFECTS OF WAR IN FOUR COUNTRIES | 765 |
| By Irvin S. Cobb |
| HOW PARIS DROPPED GAYETY | 767 |
| By Anne Rittenhouse |
| PARIS IN OCTOBER | 770 |
| From The London Times |
| FRANCE AND ENGLAND AS SEEN IN WAR TIME | 772 |
| Interview with F. Hopkinson Smith |
| THE HELPLESS VICTIMS | 776 |
| By Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryee |
| A NEW RUSSIA MEETS GERMANY | 777 |
| By Perceval Gibbon |
| BELGIAN CITIES GERMANIZED | 780 |
| By Cyril Brown of The New York Times |
| THE BELGIAN RUIN | 786 |
| By J.H. Whitehouse, M.P. |
| THE WOUNDED SERB | 788 |
| From The London Times |
| SPY ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND | 790 |
| British Home Office Communication |
| CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR | 793 |
| THE MEN OF THE EMDEN (Poem) | 816 |
| By Thomas R. Ybarra |
NUMBER V. |
THE NEW RUSSIA SPEAKS |
| AN APPEAL BY RUSSIAN AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND ACTORS | 817 |
| With Their Signatures |
| RUSSIA IN LITERATURE | 819 |
| By British Men of Letters |
| RUSSIA AND EUROPE'S WAR | 821 |
| By Paul Vinogradoff |
| RUSSIAN APPEAL FOR THE POLES | 825 |
| By A. Konovalov of the Russian Duma |
| I AM FOR PEACE (Poem) | 826 |
| By Lurana Sheldon |
| UNITED RUSSIA | 827 |
| By Peter Struve |
| PRINCE TRUBETSKOI'S APPEAL TO RUSSIANS | 830 |
| To Help the Polish Victims of War |
| HOW PROHIBITION CAME TO RUSSIA | 831 |
| An Interview with the Reformer Tchelisheff |
| INFLUENCE OF THE WAR UPON RUSSIAN INDUSTRY | 834 |
| By the Russian Ministry of Commerce |
| DECLARATION OF THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS | 835 |
| A RUSSIAN FINANCIAL AUTHORITY ON THE WAR | 836 |
| By Prof. Migoulin |
| PROPOSED INTERNAL LOANS OF RUSSIA | 837 |
| (Prof. Migoulin's Plan) |
| HOW RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS FEEL | 838 |
| Digested from Russkia Vedomosti |
| NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE NEEDED | 839 |
| By A. Sokolov |
| OUR RUSSIAN ALLY | 840 |
| By Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace |
| CONFISCATION OF GERMAN PATENTS | 849 |
| By the Russian Ministry of Commerce |
| A RUSSIAN INCOME TAX | 850 |
| Proposed by the Ministry of Finance |
| TOOLS OF THE RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT | 851 |
| By M.J. Bonn |
| FATE OF THE JEWS IN POLAND | 854 |
| By Georg Brandes |
| COMMERCIAL TREATIES AFTER THE WAR | 863 |
| By P. Maslov |
| PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR | 865 |
| 48 War Pictures Printed in Rotogravure |
| PATRIOTISM AND ENDURANCE | 913 |
| The Pastoral Letter of Cardinal D.J. Mercier, Archbishop of Malines |
| APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR BELGIUM (Poem) | 924 |
| By Thomas Hardy |
| WITH THE GERMAN ARMY | 925 |
| By Cyril Brown |
| STORY OF THE MAN WHO FIRED ON RHEIMS CATHEDRAL | 928 |
| RICHARD HARDING DAVIS'S COMMENT | 931 |
| THE GERMAN AIRMEN | 932 |
| GERMAN GENERALS TALK OF THE WAR | 934 |
| SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM | 939 |
| By Vance Thompson |
| CIVIL LIFE IN BERLIN | 943 |
| From The London Times |
| BELGIAN BOY TELLS STORY OF AERSCHOT | 945 |
| From The New York Times |
| THE NEUTRALS (Poem) | 948 |
| By Beatrice Barry |
| FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE YSER | 949 |
| From The New York Times |
| SEEING NIEUPORT UNDER SHELL FIRE | 951 |
| From The New York Times |
| RAID ON SCARBOROUGH SEEN FROM A WINDOW | 954 |
| By Ruth Kauffmann |
| HOW THE BARONESS HID HER HUSBAND ON A VESSEL | 956 |
| From The New York Times |
| WARSAW SWAMPED WITH REFUGEES | 957 |
| By H.W. Bodkinson |
| AFTER THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN GALICIA | 958 |
| From The London Times |
| OFFICER IN BATTLE HAD LITTLE FEELING | 959 |
| By The Associated Press |
| THE BATTLE OF NEW YEAR'S DAY | 961 |
| By Perceval Gibbon |
| BASS'S STORY | 963 |
| From The New York Times |
| THE WASTE OF GERMAN LIVES | 964 |
| By Perceval Gibbon |
| THE FLIGHT INTO SWITZERLAND | 966 |
| By Ethel Therese Hugh |
| ONCE FAIR BELGRADE IS A SKELETON CITY | 969 |
| From The New York Times |
| LETTERS AND DIARIES | 971 |
| A Group of Soldiers' Letters |
| "CHANT OF HATE AGAINST ENGLAND" | 984 |
| How Ernst Lissauer's Lines were "Sung to Pieces" in Germany |
| ANSWERING THE "CHANT OF HATE" | 988 |
| By Beatrice M. Barry |
| ENGLAND CAUSED THE WAR | 989 |
| By T. von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor |
| A SONG OF THE SIEGE GUN (Poem) | 992 |
| By Katharine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Jr. |
| WHY ENGLAND FIGHTS GERMANY | 993 |
| By Hilaire Belloc |
| AT THE VILLA ACHILLEION, CORFU (Poem) | 999 |
| By H.T. Sudduth |
| GERMANY'S STRATEGIC RAILWAYS (With Map) | 1000 |
| By Walter Littlefield |
| GLORY OF WAR (Poem) | 1004 |
| By Adeline Adams |
| CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR | 1007 |
NUMBER VI. |
THE CALDRON OF THE BALKANS |
| HOW TURKEY WENT TO WAR | 1025 |
| SERBIA AND HER NEIGHBORS | 1036 |
| LITTLE MONTENEGRO SPEAKS | 1043 |
| BULGARIA'S ATTITUDE | 1044 |
| GREECE'S WATCHFUL WAITING | 1050 |
| WHERE RUMANIA STANDS IN THE CRISIS | 1054 |
| EXIT ALBANIA? | 1062 |
| THE WAR IN THE BALKANS | 1068 |
| By A. T. Polyzoides |
| THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS | 1073 |
| GERMANY VS. BELGIUM | 1101 |
| Case of the Secret Military Documents Presented by Both Sides |
| THE BIG AND THE GREAT (Poem) | 1114 |
| By William Archer |
| "FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH" (Poem) | 1119 |
| By Sidney Low |
| "A SCRAP OF PAPER" | 1120 |
| By Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and Sir Edward Grey |
| THE KAISER AT DONCHERY | 1125 |
| By The Associated Press |
| HAIL! A HYMN TO BELGIUM (Music by F. H. Cowen) | 1126 |
| By John Galsworthy |
| HOLLAND'S FUTURE (With Map) | 1128 |
| By H.G. Wells |
| FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES | 1133 |
| A FRENCH MAYOR'S PUNISHMENT | 1163 |
| By The Associated Press |
| WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END | 1164 |
| By Premier Viviani of France |
| NUITS BLANCHES | 1166 |
| By H.S. Haskins |
| UNCONQUERED FRANCE | 1167 |
| From the Bulletin Francais |
| FOUR MONTHS OF WAR (With Map) | 1169 |
| From the Bulletin des Armees |
| LONG LIVE THE ALLIES! | 1174 |
| By Claude Monet |
| UNITED STATES FAIR TO ALL | 1175 |
| By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State |
| THE HOUSE WITH SEALED DOORS (Poem) | 1183 |
| By Edith M. Thomas |
| SEIZURES OF AMERICAN CARGOES | 1184 |
| By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State |
| GERMAN CROWN PRINCE TO AMERICA | 1187 |
| By The Associated Press |
| THE OFFICIAL BRITISH EXPLANATION | 1188 |
| By Sir Edward Grey |
| ITALY AND THE WAR (With Map) | 1192 |
| By William Roscoe Thayer |
| HE HEARD THE BUGLES CALLING (Poem) | 1198 |
| By Carey C.D. Briggs |
| GERMAN SOLDIERS WRITE HOME | 1199 |
| WAR CORRESPONDENCE | 1207 |
| THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT) | 1210 |
| By Annie Vivanti Chartres |
| THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem) | 1216 |
| By Alice Meynell |
| CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR | 1224 |
| TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem) | 1228 |
| By William Watson |
