THE RATS IN OUR HOME TRENCHES _E. S. Martin_ 50 SEEING STARS _Booth Tarkington_ 52 THE TWO GIANTS _Hon. James W. Gerard_ 54 “WILL THEY LAST, FATHER?” _George W. Cable_ 56 “THE UGLY TALONS OF THE SINISTER POWER” _John Burroughs_ 58 RESTITUTION AND REPARATION _Ellis Parker Butler_ 60 THE ONLY POSSIBLE POSITION FOR TRAITORS _H. C. Chatfield-Taylor_ 62 “DO YOU MEAN TO MAKE A REAL WAR?” 64 JUSTICE! _Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve_ 66 ANOTHER PEACE PROPOSAL _Henry Dwight Sedgwick_ 68 THE FINE AMERICAN SPIRIT _G. E. Woodberry_ 70 POISONING THE WELL OF PUBLIC OPINION 72 THE ENEMY WITHIN _William Roscoe Thayer_ 74 COUNT VON BERNSTORFF: “NOBLESSE OBLIGE” _George Trumbull Ladd_ 76 PETER THE HERMIT _Ida M. Tarbell_ 78 THE GERM-MAN _Albert Bigelow Paine_ 80 “A TID-BIT FOR ‘THE SICK MAN’” _Hon. George W. Wickersham_ 82 PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES 84 HELPING HINDENBURG HOME 86 A BAD PROPHET 88 AT THE HOLLAND FRONTIER _Hon. William Jennings Bryan_ 90 A REHEARSAL 92 THE PATH OF KULTUR _Edwin Markham_ 94 TO THE VICTOR! _Geraldine Farrar_ 96 THE EYES OF THE ARMY _Thomas Mott Osborne_ 98 “IS IT NOTHING TO YOU, ALL YE WHO PASS BY?” _Rachel Crothers_ 100 THE RAINBOW DIVISION LEAVES FOR FRANCE _Hon. Frederic Courtland Penfield_ 102 RUSSIA REBORN _Edward Alsworth Ross_ 104 HIGHER THAN A SOUR APPLE TREE _Samuel Hopkins Adams_ 106 “WHAT A MEAN TRICK TO TURN ON THAT STRONG LIGHT!” 108 CHRISTMAS, 1917 _Henry Mills Alden_ 110 HELPING UNCLE SAM TO GET UP SPEED 112 THE WIND OF DEMOCRACY 114 “THIS ONE FOR THE BABIES!” _Rev. Lyman Abbott_ 116 A SCENE ON THE SOMME 118