CONTENTS

NUMBER I.

WHAT MEN OF LETTERS SAY

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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 EUROPE219
As Interpreted by Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German Imperial Chancellor.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S VERSION OF THE WAR226
By Kaiser Frawz Josef and Count Berchtold
A GERMAN REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE228
Certified by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg, German ex-Colonial Secretary
"TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY"244
Attested by Thirty-four German Dignitaries
SPECULATIONS ABOUT PEACE, SEPTEMBER, 1914273
Report by James W. Gerard, American Ambassador at Berlin, to President Wilson.
FIRST WARNINGS OF EUROPE'S PERIL277
Speeches by British Ministers
GREAT BRITAIN'S MOBILIZATION294
Measures Taken Throughout the Empire Upon the Outbreak of War
SUMMONS OF THE NATION TO ARMS308
British People Roused by Their Leaders
TEACHINGS OF GEN. VON BERNHARDI343
By Viscount Bryce
ENTRANCE OF FRANCE INTO THE WAR350
By President Poincare and Premier Viviani
RUSSIA TO HER ENEMY358
"THE FACTS ABOUT BELGIUM"365
Statement Issued by the Belgian Legation at Washington
BELGO-BRITISH PLOT ALLEGED BY GERMANY369
Statement Issued by German Embassy at Washington, Oct. 13.
ATROCITIES OF THE WAR374
BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS CATHEDRAL392
Protest Issued to Neutral Powers from French Foreign Office, Bordeaux, Sept. 21.
THE SOCIALISTS' PART397

NUMBER III.

WHAT AMERICANS SAY TO EUROPE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CIVILIZATION413
Argued by James M. Beck
CRITICS DISPUTE MR. BECK431
DEFENSE OF THE DUAL ALLIANCE--REPLY438
By Dr. Edmund von Mach
WHAT GLADSTONE SAID ABOUT BELGIUM448
By George Louis Beer
FIGHT TO THE BITTER END451
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 PEACE459
An Interview with Jacob H. Schiff
PROF. MATHER ON MR. SCHIFF464
THE ELIOT-SCHIFF LETTERS465
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 WAR473
Series of Five Letters by Charles W. Eliot, with Related Correspondence
THE LORD OF HOSTS (Poem)501
By Joseph B. Gilder
A WAR OF DISHONOR502
By David Starr Jordan
MIGHT OR RIGHT503
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 GERMANY515
By William M. Sloane
POSSIBLE PROFITS FROM WAR526
Interview with Franklin H. Giddings
"TO AMERICANS LEAVING GERMANY"533
A German Circular
GERMAN DECLARATIONS534
By Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Haeckel
THE EUCKEN AND HAECKEL CHARGES537
By John Warbeke
CONCERNING GERMAN CULTURE541
By Brander Matthews
CULTURE VS. KULTUR543
By Frank Jewett Mather, Jr.
THE TRESPASS IN BELGIUM545
By John Grier Hibben
APPORTIONING THE BLAME548
By Arthur v. Briesen
PARTING (Poem)553
By Louise von Wetter
FRENCH HATE AND ENGLISH JEALOUSY554
By Kuno Francke
IN DEFENSE OF AUSTRIA559
By Baron L. Hengelmuller
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES563
By George Haven Putnam
"THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE"565
Interview with Nicholas Murray Butler
A NEW WORLD MAP571
By Wilhelm Ostwald
THE VERDICT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE573
By Newell Dwight Hillis
TIPPERARY (Poem)581
By John B. Kennedy
AS AMERICA SEES THE WAR582
By Harold Begbie
TO MELOS, POMEGRANATE ISLE (Poem)587
By Grace Harriet Macurdy
WHAT AMERICA CAN DO588
By Lord Channing of Wellingborough
TO A COUSIN GERMAN (Poem)593
By Adeline Adams
WHAT THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS MAY BE594
By Irving Fisher
EFFECTS OF WAR ON AMERICA600
By Roland G. Usher
GERMANY OF THE FUTURE605
Interview with M. de Lapredelle
GERMANY THE AGGRESSOR609
By Albert Sauveur
MILITARISM AND CHRISTIANITY610
By Lyman Abbott
VIGIL (Poem)612
By Hortense Flexner
NIETZSCHE AND GERMAN CULTURE613
By Abraham Solomon
BELGIUM'S BITTER NEED614
By Sir Gilbert Parker

NUMBER IV.

THE WAR AT CLOSE QUARTERS

SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY619
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 ANTWERP682
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
AS THE FRENCH FELL BACK ON PARIS689
By G. H. Perris
THE RETREAT TO PARIS691
By Philip Gibbs
A ZOUAVE'S STORY704
By Philip Gibbs
WHEN WAR BURST ON ARRAS707
By a Special Correspondent
THE BATTLES IN BELGIUM (With Map)711
By The Associated Press
SEEKING WOUNDED ON BATTLE FRONT714
By Philip Gibbs
AT THE KAISER'S HEADQUARTERS718
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times
HOW THE BELGIANS FIGHT725
By a Correspondent of The London Daily News
A VISIT TO THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE727
By a Correspondent of The New York Times
UNBURIED DEAD STREW LORRAINE (With Map)729
By Philip Gibbs
ALONG THE GERMAN LINES NEAR METZ731
By The Associated Press
THE SLAUGHTER IN ALSACE736
By John H. Cox
RENNENKAMPF ON THE RUSSIAN BORDER738
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-TAU745
By Jefferson Jones
THE GERMAN ATTACK ON TAHITI748
As Told by Miss Geni La France, an Eyewitness
THE BLOODLESS CAPTURE OF GERMAN SAMOA749
By Malcolm Ross, F.R.G.S.
HOW THE CRESSY SANK752
By Edgar Rowan
GERMAN STORY OF THE HELIGOLAND FIGHT754
By a Special Correspondent of The New York Times
THE SINKING OF THE CRESSY AND THE HOGUE755
By the Senior Surviving Officers, Commander Bertram W.L. Nicholson and
Commander Reginald A. Norton
THE SINKING OF THE HAWKE757
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
THE EMDEN'S LAST FIGHT758
By the Cable Operator at Cocos Islands
CROWDS SEE THE NIGER SINK760
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle
LIEUTENANT WEDDIGEN'S OWN STORY762
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 COUNTRIES765
By Irvin S. Cobb
HOW PARIS DROPPED GAYETY767
By Anne Rittenhouse
PARIS IN OCTOBER770
From The London Times
FRANCE AND ENGLAND AS SEEN IN WAR TIME772
Interview with F. Hopkinson Smith
THE HELPLESS VICTIMS776
By Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryee
A NEW RUSSIA MEETS GERMANY777
By Perceval Gibbon
BELGIAN CITIES GERMANIZED780
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times
THE BELGIAN RUIN786
By J.H. Whitehouse, M.P.
THE WOUNDED SERB788
From The London Times
SPY ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND790
British Home Office Communication
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR793
THE MEN OF THE EMDEN (Poem)816
By Thomas R. Ybarra

NUMBER V.

THE NEW RUSSIA SPEAKS

AN APPEAL BY RUSSIAN AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND ACTORS817
With Their Signatures
RUSSIA IN LITERATURE819
By British Men of Letters
RUSSIA AND EUROPE'S WAR821
By Paul Vinogradoff
RUSSIAN APPEAL FOR THE POLES825
By A. Konovalov of the Russian Duma
I AM FOR PEACE (Poem)826
By Lurana Sheldon
UNITED RUSSIA827
By Peter Struve
PRINCE TRUBETSKOI'S APPEAL TO RUSSIANS830
To Help the Polish Victims of War
HOW PROHIBITION CAME TO RUSSIA831
An Interview with the Reformer Tchelisheff
INFLUENCE OF THE WAR UPON RUSSIAN INDUSTRY834
By the Russian Ministry of Commerce
DECLARATION OF THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS835
A RUSSIAN FINANCIAL AUTHORITY ON THE WAR836
By Prof. Migoulin
PROPOSED INTERNAL LOANS OF RUSSIA837
(Prof. Migoulin's Plan)
HOW RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS FEEL838
Digested from Russkia Vedomosti
NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE NEEDED839
By A. Sokolov
OUR RUSSIAN ALLY840
By Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace
CONFISCATION OF GERMAN PATENTS849
By the Russian Ministry of Commerce
A RUSSIAN INCOME TAX850
Proposed by the Ministry of Finance
TOOLS OF THE RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT851
By M.J. Bonn
FATE OF THE JEWS IN POLAND854
By Georg Brandes
COMMERCIAL TREATIES AFTER THE WAR863
By P. Maslov
PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR865
48 War Pictures Printed in Rotogravure
PATRIOTISM AND ENDURANCE913
The Pastoral Letter of Cardinal D.J. Mercier, Archbishop of Malines
APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR BELGIUM (Poem)924
By Thomas Hardy
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY925
By Cyril Brown
STORY OF THE MAN WHO FIRED ON RHEIMS CATHEDRAL928
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS'S COMMENT931
THE GERMAN AIRMEN932
GERMAN GENERALS TALK OF THE WAR934
SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM939
By Vance Thompson
CIVIL LIFE IN BERLIN943
From The London Times
BELGIAN BOY TELLS STORY OF AERSCHOT945
From The New York Times
THE NEUTRALS (Poem)948
By Beatrice Barry
FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE YSER949
From The New York Times
SEEING NIEUPORT UNDER SHELL FIRE951
From The New York Times
RAID ON SCARBOROUGH SEEN FROM A WINDOW954
By Ruth Kauffmann
HOW THE BARONESS HID HER HUSBAND ON A VESSEL956
From The New York Times
WARSAW SWAMPED WITH REFUGEES957
By H.W. Bodkinson
AFTER THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN GALICIA958
From The London Times
OFFICER IN BATTLE HAD LITTLE FEELING959
By The Associated Press
THE BATTLE OF NEW YEAR'S DAY961
By Perceval Gibbon
BASS'S STORY963
From The New York Times
THE WASTE OF GERMAN LIVES964
By Perceval Gibbon
THE FLIGHT INTO SWITZERLAND966
By Ethel Therese Hugh
ONCE FAIR BELGRADE IS A SKELETON CITY969
From The New York Times
LETTERS AND DIARIES971
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 WAR989
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 GERMANY993
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 WAR1007

NUMBER VI.

THE CALDRON OF THE BALKANS

HOW TURKEY WENT TO WAR1025
SERBIA AND HER NEIGHBORS1036
LITTLE MONTENEGRO SPEAKS1043
BULGARIA'S ATTITUDE1044
GREECE'S WATCHFUL WAITING1050
WHERE RUMANIA STANDS IN THE CRISIS1054
EXIT ALBANIA?1062
THE WAR IN THE BALKANS1068
By A. T. Polyzoides
THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS1073
GERMANY VS. BELGIUM1101
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 DONCHERY1125
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 ATROCITIES1133
A FRENCH MAYOR'S PUNISHMENT1163
By The Associated Press
WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END1164
By Premier Viviani of France
NUITS BLANCHES1166
By H.S. Haskins
UNCONQUERED FRANCE1167
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 ALL1175
By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State
THE HOUSE WITH SEALED DOORS (Poem)1183
By Edith M. Thomas
SEIZURES OF AMERICAN CARGOES1184
By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State
GERMAN CROWN PRINCE TO AMERICA1187
By The Associated Press
THE OFFICIAL BRITISH EXPLANATION1188
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 HOME1199
WAR CORRESPONDENCE1207
THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT)1210
By Annie Vivanti Chartres
THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem)1216
By Alice Meynell
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR1224
TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem)1228
By William Watson

"Common Sense About the War"

By George Bernard Shaw.

I.

"Let a European war break out—the war, perhaps, between the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente, which so many journalists and politicians in England and Germany contemplate with criminal levity. If the combatants prove to be equally balanced, it may, after the first battles, smoulder on for thirty years. What will be the population of London, or Manchester, or Chemnitz, or Bremen, or Milan, at the end of it?" ("The Great Society," by Graham Wallas. June, 1914.)