E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 22460-h.htm or 22460-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/4/6/22460/22460-h/22460-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/2/4/6/22460/22460-h.zip) Transcriber's Note: Archaic spellings of place names have been retained as they appear in the original. A table of contents has been provided for the reader's convenience. The New York Times CURRENT HISTORY A Monthly Magazine THE EUROPEAN WAR AUGUST, 1915 [Illustration: H.M. QUEEN SOPHIA OF GREECE Sister of Kaiser Wilhelm, and an Ardent Germanophile (_Photo from Bain._)] [Illustration: HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XV. The Entrance of Italy into the War has Increased the Delicacy of the Pontiff's Position (_Photo from International News._)] CONTENTS THE LUSITANIA CASE The American Rejoinder German and American Press Opinion Austria-Hungary's Protest Armenian, Orduna, and Others Results of Submarine Warfare In Memoriam: REGINALD WARNEFORD American Preparedness First Year of the War Inferences from Eleven Months of the European Conflict "Revenge for Elisabeth!" A Year of the War in Africa and Asia An "Insult" to War The Drive at Warsaw Naval Losses During the War Battles in the West France's "Eyewitness" Reports The Crown Prince in the Argonne Gallipoli's Shambles Italy's War on Austria The Task of Italy Two Devoted Nations Rumania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece Dr. Conybeare's Recantation The Case of Muenter Devotion to the Kaiser Scientists and the Military Hudson Maxim on Explosives Thor! "I am the Gravest Danger" THE EUROPEAN WAR AS SEEN BY CARTOONISTS The Belligerents' Munitions The Power of the Purse Cases Reserved New Recruiting in Britain American War Supplies Magazinists of the World on the War Germany's Long-Nourished Powers "To Avenge" The Pope, the Vatican, and Italy Are the Allies Winning? Selling Arms to the Allies War and Non-Resistance "Good Natured Germany" Italy's Defection Apologies for English Words Germanic Peace Terms France's Bill of Damages A French Rejoinder Dr. Von Bode's Polemic "Carnegie and German Peace" Russia's Supply of Warriors Austria and the Balkans Italy's Publications in War-Time Sweden and the Lusitania A Threatened Despotism of Spirit "Gott Mit Uns" On the Psychology of Neutrals Chlorine Warfare Rheims Cathedral The English Falsehood Calais or Suez? Note on the Principle of Nationality Singer of "La Marseillaise" Depression--Common-Sense and the Situation