THE LITTLE REVIEW _Literature_ _Drama_ _Music_ _Art_ MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR AUGUST, 1915 The American Family Ben Hecht Patterns Amy Lowell The Piano and Imagism Margaret C. Anderson War Impressions Florence Kiper Frank Lawson, Caplan, Schmidt Alexander Berkman Father and Daughter Edgar Lee Masters Poems from the Greek Richard Aldington Nudity and the Ideal Will Levington Comfort “Rooming” Helen Hoyt The Ugliest Man George Burman Foster A Photograph of Edgar Lee Masters by Eugene Hutchinson Emasculating Ibsen; Death “The Scavenger” { Alice Oliver Henderson Children’s Poems { Arvia Mackaye { Robin Mackaye Book Discussion The Reader Critic Published Monthly 15 cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Publisher Fine Arts Building CHICAGO $1.50 a year Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice, Chicago THE LITTLE REVIEW Vol. II AUGUST, 1915 No. 5 Copyright, 1915, by Margaret C. Anderson The American Family BEN HECHT The dead fingers of spent passions, spent dreams, spent youth clutch at the throat of the rising generation and preserve the integrity of the American family. Not that there is a typical American family. There is only the typical struggle between the dead and the living, between the inert and hideous virtue of decayed souls and the rebellious desires of their doomed progeny.