Chapter 1
What Men of Letters Say
Current History a Monthly Magazine
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
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COMMON SENSE ABOUT THE WAR
By George Bernard Shaw
SHAW'S NONSENSE ABOUT BELGIUM
By Arnold Bennett
BENNETT STATES THE GERMAN CASE
By George Bernard Shaw
FLAWS IN SHAW'S LOGIC
By Cunninghame Graham
EDITORIAL COMMENT ON SHAW
SHAW EMPTY OF GOOD SENSE
By Christabel Pankhurst
COMMENT BY READING OF SHAW
OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT WILSON
By George Bernard Shaw
A GERMAN LETTER TO G. BERNARD SHAW
By Herbert Eulenberg
BRITISH AUTHORS DEFEND ENGLAND'S WAR
With Facsimile Signatures
THE FOURTH OF AUGUST--EUROPE AT WAR
By H. G. Wells
IF THE GERMANS RAID ENGLAND
By H. G. Wells
SIR OLIVER LODGE'S COMMENT
WHAT THE GERMAN CONSCRIPT THINKS
By Arnold Bennett
FELIX ADLER'S COMMENT
WHEN PEACE IS SERIOUSLY DESIRED
By Arnold Bennett
BARRIE AT BAY: WHICH WAS BROWN?
An Interview on the War
A CREDO FOR KEEPING FAITH
By John Galsworthy
HARD BLOWS, NOT HARD WORDS
By Jerome K. Jerome
"AS THEY TESTED OUR FATHERS"
By Rudyard Kipling
KIPLING AND "THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR"
ON THE IMPENDING CRISIS
By Norman Angell
WHY ENGLAND CAME TO BE IN IT
By Gilbert K. Chesterton
SOUTH AFRICA'S BOERS AND BRITONS
By H. Rider Haggard
CAPT. MARK HAGGARD'S DEATH IN BATTLE
By H. Rider Haggard
AN ANTI-CHRISTIAN WAR
By Robert Bridges
ENGLISH ARTISTS' PROTEST
TO ARMS!
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
CONAN DOYLE ON BRITISH MILITARISM
THE NEED OF BEING MERCILESS
By Maurice Maeterlinck
LETTERS TO DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
By Baron d'Estournelles de Constant
THE VITAL ENERGIES OF FRANCE
By Henri Bergson
FRANCE THROUGH ENGLISH EYES
With Rene Bazin's Appreciation
THE SOLDIER OF 1914
By Rene Doumic
GERMANY'S CIVILIZED BARBARISM
By Emile Boutroux
THE GERMAN RELIGION OF DUTY
By Gabriele Reuter
A LETTER TO GERHART HAUPTMANN
By Romain Rolland
A REPLY TO ROLLAND
By Gerhart Hauptmann
ANOTHER REPLY TO ROLLAND
By Karl Wolfskehl
ARE WE BARBARIANS?
By Gerhart Hauptmann
TO AMERICANS FROM A GERMAN FRIEND
By Ludwig Fulda
APPEAL TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD
By Professors of Germany
APPEAL OF THE GERMAN UNIVERSITIES
REPLY TO THE GERMAN PROFESSORS
By British Scholars
CONCERNING THE GERMAN PROFESSORS
By Frederic Harrison
THE REPLY FROM FRANCE
By M. Yves Guyot and Prof Bellet
TO AMERICANS IN GERMANY
By Prof. Adolf von Harnack
A REPLY TO PROF. HARNACK
By Some British Theologians
PROF. HARNACK IN REBUTTAL
THE CAUSES OF THE WAR
By Theodore Niemeyer
COMMENT BY DR. MAX WALTER