THE NEW YORK TIMES CURRENT HISTORY A MONTHLY MAGAZINE THE EUROPEAN WAR VOLUME I. From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index [Illustration] 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_ 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