12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. The Project Gutenberg EBook of New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Author: Various Release Date: October 5, 2004 [EBook #13635] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NEW YORK TIMES, CURRENT *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Miranda van de Heijning and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team. CURRENT HISTORY A MONTHLY MAGAZINE THE EUROPEAN WAR VOLUME I. From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 1/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. NEW YORK THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY 1915 Copyright 1914, 1915, By The New York Times Company CONTENTS 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 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 2/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. 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 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 3/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. 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 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 4/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. 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 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 5/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. 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. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 6/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. 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 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/13635/13635-h/13635-h.htm 7/226 12/4/2020 The Project Gutenberg eBook of Current History, The European War Volume I, by The New York Times Company. 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.