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Current History, A Monthly Magazine; The European War, Volume I Issue I; From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index, by The New York Times

Published: New York, The New York Times Company, 1915

Number 1 is, What Men Of Letters Say about the crisis and the war as events were happening, by George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Norman Angell, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Baron de Constant, Rene Doumic, Gabriele Reuter, Gerhart Hauptmann, British Scholars, Professors of Germany, and many more, published in various editions of The New York Times. Includes some .jpg images of the authors

CURRENT HISTORY

A MONTHLY MAGAZINE

THE EUROPEAN WAR

VOLUME I.

From the Beginning to March, 1915

With Index

NEW YORK
THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY
1915

Copyright 1914, 1915,
By The New York Times Company

NUMBER I.

WHAT MEN OF LETTERS SAY

COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR
By George Bernard Shaw .... 11

SHAW'S NONSENSE ABOUT BELGIUM
By Arnold Bennett .... 60

BENNETT STATES THE GERMAN CASE
By George Bernard Shaw .... 63

FLAWS IN SHAW'S LOGIC
By Cunninghame Graham .... 65

EDITORIAL COMMENT ON SHAW .... 66

SHAW EMPTY OF GOOD SENSE
By Christabel Pankhurst .... 68

COMMENT BY READING OF SHAW .... 73

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON
By George Bernard Shaw .... 76

A GERMAN LETTER TO G. BERNARD SHAW
By Herbert Eulenberg .... 80

BRITISH AUTHORS DEFEND ENGLAND'S WAR
With Facsimile Signatures .... 82

THE FOURTH OF AUGUST--EUROPE AT WAR
By H. G. Wells .... 87

IF THE GERMANS RAID ENGLAND
By H. G. Wells .... 89

SIR OLIVER LODGE'S COMMENT .... 92

WHAT THE GERMAN CONSCRIPT THINKS
By Arnold Bennett .... 93

FELIX ADLER'S COMMENT .... 95

WHEN PEACE IS SERIOUSLY DESIRED
By Arnold Bennett .... 97

BARRIE AT BAY: WHICH WAS BROWN?
An Interview on the War .... 100

A CREDO FOR KEEPING FAITH
By John Galsworthy .... 102

HARD BLOWS, NOT HARD WORDS
By Jerome K. Jerome .... 103

"AS THEY TESTED OUR FATHERS"
By Rudyard Kipling .... 106

KIPLING AND "THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR" .... 107

ON THE IMPENDING CRISIS
By Norman Angell .... 107

WHY ENGLAND CAME TO BE IN IT
By Gilbert K. Chesterton .... 108

SOUTH AFRICA'S BOERS AND BRITONS
By H. Rider Haggard .... 125

CAPT. MARK HAGGARD'S DEATH IN BATTLE
By H. Rider Haggard .... 128

AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR
By Robert Bridges .... 129

ENGLISH ARTISTS' PROTEST .... 130

TO ARMS!
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle .... 132

CONAN DOYLE ON BRITISH MILITARISM .... 140

THE NEED OF BEING MERCILESS
By Maurice Maeterlinck .... 144

LETTERS TO DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
By Baron d'Estournelles de Constant .... 146

THE VITAL ENERGIES OF FRANCE
By Henri Bergson .... 153

FRANCE THROUGH ENGLISH EYES
With Rene Bazin's Appreciation .... 153

THE SOLDIER OF 1914
By Rene Doumic .... 156

GERMANY'S CIVILIZED BARBARISM
By Emile Boutroux .... 160

THE GERMAN RELIGION OF DUTY
By Gabriele Reuter .... 170

A LETTER TO GERHART HAUPTMANN
By Romain Rolland .... 174

A REPLY TO ROLLAND
By Gerhart Hauptmann .... 175

ANOTHER REPLY TO ROLLAND
By Karl Wolfskehl .... 176

ARE WE BARBARIANS?
By Gerhart Hauptmann .... 178

TO AMERICANS FROM A GERMAN FRIEND
By Ludwig Fulda .... 180

APPEAL TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD
By Professors of Germany .... 185

APPEAL OF THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES .... 187

REPLY TO THE GERMAN PROFESSORS
By British Scholars .... 188

CONCERNING THE GERMAN PROFESSORS
By Frederic Harrison .... 192

THE REPLY FROM FRANCE
By M. Yves Guyot and Prof Bellet .... 194

TO AMERICANS IN GERMANY
By Prof. Adolf von Harnack .... 198

A REPLY TO PROF. HARNACK
By Some British Theologians .... 201

PROF. HARNACK IN REBUTTAL .... 203

THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
By Theodore Niemeyer .... 206

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
As Interpreted by Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg,
German Imperial Chancellor. .... 219

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY'S VERSION OF THE WAR
By Kaiser Frawz Josef and Count Berchtold .... 226

A GERMAN REVIEW OF THE EVIDENCE
Certified by Dr. Bernhard Dernburg,
German ex-Colonial Secretary .... 228

"TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY"
Attested by Thirty-four German Dignitaries .... 244

SPECULATIONS ABOUT PEACE, SEPTEMBER, 1914
Report by James W. Gerard, American Ambassador
at Berlin, to President Wilson. .... 273

FIRST WARNINGS OF EUROPE'S PERIL
Speeches by British Ministers .... 277

GREAT BRITAIN'S MOBILIZATION
Measures Taken Throughout the Empire
Upon the Outbreak of War .... 294

SUMMONS OF THE NATION TO ARMS
British People Roused by Their Leaders .... 308

TEACHINGS OF GEN. VON BERNHARDI
By Viscount Bryce .... 343

ENTRANCE OF FRANCE INTO THE WAR
By President Poincare and Premier Viviani .... 350

RUSSIA TO HER ENEMY .... 358

"THE FACTS ABOUT BELGIUM"
Statement Issued by the Belgian Legation at Washington .... 365

BELGO-BRITISH PLOT ALLEGED BY GERMANY
Statement Issued by German Embassy at Washington, Oct. 13. .... 369

ATROCITIES OF THE WAR .... 374

BOMBARDMENT OF RHEIMS CATHEDRAL
Protest Issued to Neutral Powers from
French Foreign Office, Bordeaux, Sept. 21. .... 392

THE SOCIALISTS' PART .... 397

NUMBER III.

WHAT AMERICANS SAY TO EUROPE

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CIVILIZATION
Argued by James M. Beck .... 413

CRITICS DISPUTE MR. BECK .... 431

DEFENSE OF THE DUAL ALLIANCE--REPLY
By Dr. Edmund von Mach .... 438

WHAT GLADSTONE SAID ABOUT BELGIUM
By George Louis Beer .... 448

FIGHT TO THE BITTER END
An Interview with Andrew Carnegie .... 451

WOMAN AND WAR--"Shot, Tell His Mother" (Poem)
By W.E.P. French, Captain, U.S. Army .... 458

THE WAY TO PEACE
An Interview with Jacob H. Schiff .... 459

PROF. MATHER ON MR. SCHIFF .... 464

THE ELIOT-SCHIFF LETTERS
By Jacob H. Schiff and Charles W. Eliot .... 465

LA CATHEDRALE (Poem Translated by Frances C. Fay)
By Edmond Rostand .... 472

PROBABLE CAUSES AND OUTCOME OF THE WAR
Series of Five Letters by Charles W. Eliot,
with Related Correspondence .... 473

THE LORD OF HOSTS (Poem)
By Joseph B. Gilder .... 501

A WAR OF DISHONOR
By David Starr Jordan .... 502

MIGHT OR RIGHT
By John Grier Hibben .... 503

JEANNE D'ARC--1914 (Poem)
By Alma Durant Nicholson .... 506

THE KAISER AND BELGIUM (With controversial letters)
By John W. Burgess .... 507

AMERICA'S PERIL IN JUDGING GERMANY
By William M. Sloane .... 515

POSSIBLE PROFITS FROM WAR
Interview with Franklin H. Giddings .... 526

"TO AMERICANS LEAVING GERMANY"
A German Circular .... 533

GERMAN DECLARATIONS
By Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Haeckel .... 534

THE EUCKEN AND HAECKEL CHARGES
By John Warbeke .... 537

CONCERNING GERMAN CULTURE
By Brander Matthews .... 541

CULTURE VS. KULTUR
By Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. .... 543

THE TRESPASS IN BELGIUM
By John Grier Hibben .... 545

APPORTIONING THE BLAME
By Arthur v. Briesen .... 548

PARTING (Poem)
By Louise von Wetter .... 553

FRENCH HATE AND ENGLISH JEALOUSY
By Kuno Francke .... 554

IN DEFENSE OF AUSTRIA
By Baron L. Hengelmuller .... 559

RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
By George Haven Putnam .... 563

"THE UNITED STATES OF EUROPE"
Interview with Nicholas Murray Butler .... 565

A NEW WORLD MAP
By Wilhelm Ostwald .... 571

THE VERDICT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
By Newell Dwight Hillis .... 573

TIPPERARY (Poem)
By John B. Kennedy .... 581

AS AMERICA SEES THE WAR
By Harold Begbie .... 582

TO MELOS, POMEGRANATE ISLE (Poem)
By Grace Harriet Macurdy .... 587

WHAT AMERICA CAN DO
By Lord Channing of Wellingborough .... 588

TO A COUSIN GERMAN (Poem)
By Adeline Adams .... 593

WHAT THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS MAY BE
By Irving Fisher .... 594

EFFECTS OF WAR ON AMERICA
By Roland G. Usher .... 600

GERMANY OF THE FUTURE
Interview with M. de Lapredelle .... 605

GERMANY THE AGGRESSOR
By Albert Sauveur .... 609

MILITARISM AND CHRISTIANITY
By Lyman Abbott .... 610

VIGIL (Poem)
By Hortense Flexner .... 612

NIETZSCHE AND GERMAN CULTURE
By Abraham Solomon .... 613

BELGIUM'S BITTER NEED
By Sir Gilbert Parker .... 614

NUMBER IV.

THE WAR AT CLOSE QUARTERS

SIR JOHN FRENCH'S OWN STORY
Famous Dispatches of the British Commander in Chief
to Lord Kitchener .... 619

STORY OF THE "EYE WITNESS"
By Col. E.D. Swinton of the Intelligence Department
of the British General Staff .... 650

THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY (Poem)
By Edward Neville Vose .... 678

THE GERMAN ENTRY INTO BRUSSELS (With Map)
By John Boon .... 679

THE FALL OF ANTWERP
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle .... 682

AS THE FRENCH FELL BACK ON PARIS
By G. H. Perris .... 689

THE RETREAT TO PARIS
By Philip Gibbs .... 691

A ZOUAVE'S STORY
By Philip Gibbs .... 704

WHEN WAR BURST ON ARRAS
By a Special Correspondent .... 707

THE BATTLES IN BELGIUM (With Map)
By The Associated Press .... 711

SEEKING WOUNDED ON BATTLE FRONT
By Philip Gibbs714

AT THE KAISER'S HEADQUARTERS
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times .... 718

HOW THE BELGIANS FIGHT
By a Correspondent of The London Daily News .... 725

A VISIT TO THE FIRING LINE IN FRANCE
By a Correspondent of The New York Times .... 727

UNBURIED DEAD STREW LORRAINE (With Map)
By Philip Gibbs .... 729

ALONG THE GERMAN LINES NEAR METZ
By The Associated Press .... 731

THE SLAUGHTER IN ALSACE
By John H. Cox .... 736

RENNENKAMPF ON THE RUSSIAN BORDER
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle .... 738

THE FIRST FIGHT AT LODZ (With Map)
By Perceval Gibbon .... 740

THE FIRST INVASION OF SERBIA (With Map)
By a Correspondent of The London Standard .... 742

THE ATTACK ON TSING-TAU
By Jefferson Jones .... 745

THE GERMAN ATTACK ON TAHITI
As Told by Miss Geni La France, an Eyewitness .... 748

THE BLOODLESS CAPTURE OF GERMAN SAMOA
By Malcolm Ross, F.R.G.S. .... 749

HOW THE CRESSY SANK
By Edgar Rowan .... 752

GERMAN STORY OF THE HELIGOLAND FIGHT
By a Special Correspondent of The New York Times .... 754

THE SINKING OF THE CRESSY AND THE HOGUE
By the Senior Surviving Officers, Commander
Bertram W.L. Nicholson and Commander Reginald A. Norton .... 755

THE SINKING OF THE HAWKE
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle .... 757

THE EMDEN'S LAST FIGHT
By the Cable Operator at Cocos Islands .... 758

CROWDS SEE THE NIGER SINK
By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle .... 760

LIEUTENANT WEDDIGEN'S OWN STORY
By Herbert B. Swope and Capt. Lieut. Otto Weddigen .... 762

THE SOLILOQUY OF AN OLD SOLDIER (Poem)
By O.C.A. Child .... 764

THE EFFECTS OF WAR IN FOUR COUNTRIES
By Irvin S. Cobb .... 765

HOW PARIS DROPPED GAYETY
By Anne Rittenhouse .... 767

PARIS IN OCTOBER
From The London Times .... 770

FRANCE AND ENGLAND AS SEEN IN WAR TIME
Interview with F. Hopkinson Smith .... 772

THE HELPLESS VICTIMS
By Mrs. Nina Larrey Duryee .... 776

A NEW RUSSIA MEETS GERMANY
By Perceval Gibbon .... 777

BELGIAN CITIES GERMANIZED
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times .... 780

THE BELGIAN RUIN
By J.H. Whitehouse, M.P. .... 786

THE WOUNDED SERB
From The London Times .... 788

SPY ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND
British Home Office Communication .... 790

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR .... 793

THE MEN OF THE EMDEN (Poem)
By Thomas R. Ybarra .... 816

NUMBER V.

THE NEW RUSSIA SPEAKS

AN APPEAL BY RUSSIAN AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND ACTORS
With Their Signatures .... 817

RUSSIA IN LITERATURE
By British Men of Letters .... 819

RUSSIA AND EUROPE'S WAR
By Paul Vinogradoff .... 821

RUSSIAN APPEAL FOR THE POLES
By A. Konovalov of the Russian Duma .... 825

I AM FOR PEACE (Poem)
By Lurana Sheldon .... 826

UNITED RUSSIA
By Peter Struve .... 827

PRINCE TRUBETSKOI'S APPEAL TO RUSSIANS
To Help the Polish Victims of War .... 830

HOW PROHIBITION CAME TO RUSSIA
An Interview with the Reformer Tchelisheff .... 831

INFLUENCE OF THE WAR UPON RUSSIAN INDUSTRY
By the Russian Ministry of Commerce .... 834

DECLARATION OF THE RUSSIAN INDUSTRIAL INTERESTS .... 835

A RUSSIAN FINANCIAL AUTHORITY ON THE WAR
By Prof. Migoulin .... 836

PROPOSED INTERNAL LOANS OF RUSSIA
(Prof. Migoulin's Plan) .... 837

HOW RUSSIAN MANUFACTURERS FEEL
Digested from Russkia Vedomosti .... 838

NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE NEEDED
By A. Sokolov .... 839

OUR RUSSIAN ALLY
By Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace .... 840

CONFISCATION OF GERMAN PATENTS
By the Russian Ministry of Commerce .... 849

A RUSSIAN INCOME TAX
Proposed by the Ministry of Finance .... 850

TOOLS OF THE RUSSIAN JUGGERNAUT
By M.J. Bonn .... 851

FATE OF THE JEWS IN POLAND
By Georg Brandes .... 854

COMMERCIAL TREATIES AFTER THE WAR
By P. Maslov .... 863

PHOTOGRAPHIC REVIEW OF THE WAR
48 War Pictures Printed in Rotogravure .... 865

PATRIOTISM AND ENDURANCE
The Pastoral Letter of Cardinal D.J. Mercier,
Archbishop of Malines .... 913

APPEAL TO AMERICA FOR BELGIUM (Poem)
By Thomas Hardy .... 924

WITH THE GERMAN ARMY
By Cyril Brown .... 925

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 WAR934

SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM
By Vance Thompson .... 939

CIVIL LIFE IN BERLIN
From The London Times .... 943

BELGIAN BOY TELLS STORY OF AERSCHOT
From The New York Times .... 945

THE NEUTRALS (Poem)
By Beatrice Barry .... 948

FIFTEEN MINUTES ON THE YSER
From The New York Times .... 949

SEEING NIEUPORT UNDER SHELL FIRE
From The New York Times .... 951

RAID ON SCARBOROUGH SEEN FROM A WINDOW
By Ruth Kauffmann .... 954

HOW THE BARONESS HID HER HUSBAND ON A VESSEL
From The New York Times .... 956

WARSAW SWAMPED WITH REFUGEES
By H.W. Bodkinson .... 957

AFTER THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN GALICIA
From The London Times .... 958

OFFICER IN BATTLE HAD LITTLE FEELING
By The Associated Press .... 959

THE BATTLE OF NEW YEAR'S DAY
By Perceval Gibbon .... 961

BASS'S STORY
From The New York Times .... 963

THE WASTE OF GERMAN LIVES
By Perceval Gibbon .... 964

THE FLIGHT INTO SWITZERLAND
By Ethel Therese Hugh .... 966

ONCE FAIR BELGRADE IS A SKELETON CITY
From The New York Times .... 969

LETTERS AND DIARIES
A Group of Soldiers' Letters .... 971

"CHANT OF HATE AGAINST ENGLAND"
How Ernst Lissauer's Lines were "Sung to Pieces"
in Germany .... 984

ANSWERING THE "CHANT OF HATE"
By Beatrice M. Barry .... 988

ENGLAND CAUSED THE WAR
By T. von Bethmann-Hollweg,
German Imperial Chancellor .... 989

A SONG OF THE SIEGE GUN (Poem)
By Katharine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Jr. .... 992

WHY ENGLAND FIGHTS GERMANY
By Hilaire Belloc .... 993

AT THE VILLA ACHILLEION, CORFU (Poem)
By H.T. Sudduth .... 999

GERMANY'S STRATEGIC RAILWAYS (With Map)
By Walter Littlefield .... 1000

GLORY OF WAR (Poem)
By Adeline Adams .... 1004

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
By A. T. Polyzoides .... 1068

THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS .... 1073

GERMANY VS. BELGIUM
Case of the Secret Military Documents Presented by Both Sides .... 1101

THE BIG AND THE GREAT (Poem)
By William Archer .... 1114

"FROM THE BODY OF THIS DEATH" (Poem)
By Sidney Low .... 1119

"A SCRAP OF PAPER"
By Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg and Sir Edward Grey .... 1120

THE KAISER AT DONCHERY
By The Associated Press1125

HAIL! A HYMN TO BELGIUM (Music by F. H. Cowen)
By John Galsworthy .... 1126

HOLLAND'S FUTURE (With Map)
By H.G. Wells .... 1128

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT ON GERMAN ATROCITIES .... 1133

A FRENCH MAYOR'S PUNISHMENT
By The Associated Press .... 1163

WE WILL FIGHT TO THE END
By Premier Viviani of France .... 1164

NUITS BLANCHES
By H.S. Haskins .... 1166

UNCONQUERED FRANCE
From the Bulletin Francais .... 1167

FOUR MONTHS OF WAR (With Map)
From the Bulletin des Armees .... 1169

LONG LIVE THE ALLIES!
By Claude Monet .... 1174

UNITED STATES FAIR TO ALL
By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State .... 1175

THE HOUSE WITH SEALED DOORS (Poem)
By Edith M. Thomas .... 1183

SEIZURES OF AMERICAN CARGOES
By William J. Bryan, American Secretary of State .... 1184

GERMAN CROWN PRINCE TO AMERICA
By The Associated Press .... 1187

THE OFFICIAL BRITISH EXPLANATION
By Sir Edward Grey .... 1188

ITALY AND THE WAR (With Map)
By William Roscoe Thayer .... 1192

HE HEARD THE BUGLES CALLING (Poem)
By Carey C.D. Briggs .... 1198

GERMAN SOLDIERS WRITE HOME .... 1199

WAR CORRESPONDENCE .... 1207

THE BROKEN ROSE (TO KING ALBERT)
By Annie Vivanti Chartres .... 1210

THE HEROIC LANGUAGE (Poem)
By Alice Meynell .... 1216

CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR .... 1224

TO HIS MAJESTY KING ALBERT (Poem)
By William Watson .... 1228

Current History Vol. I No. I - End of Introduction

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