THE LITTLE REVIEW Literature Drama Music Art MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR DECEMBER, 1915 Hellenica Edward J. O’Brien Sister Sherwood Anderson Toward Revolution The Editor Images of Life and Death Maxwell Bodenheim Preparedness: Universal Slaughter Emma Goldman Ellie Mary Aldis The Ecstasy of Pain: Alexander S. Kaun Fragmentary Reflections on the Art of Przybyszewski “Homo Sapiens” Discussed by Readers The Spring Recital Theodore Dreiser Editorials: John Cowper Powys at the Hebrew Institute The Foreigner in America The Russian Literature Class The Illusions of “The Art Student” The Theatre: “Grotesques,” by Cloyd Head Book Discussion: “Plays for Small Stages,” by Robert M. Lovett “The State Forbids” 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 DECEMBER, 1915 No. 9 Copyright, 1915, by Margaret C. Anderson Hellenica EDWARD J. O’BRIEN I. The scent of mint on the sandy grave of Nicias Crieth unto the wanderer For remembrance. II. Here in the arms of the harvest Lieth the gleaner, Bion, Whose sickle shineth above him in the evening. III. Far from tides and sand On the slope of Cithaeron Resteth Eumenes In the purple distance. His fellow tunny-fishers erect this stone. IV. Chaste Clearista flowereth in the heavens, For dearer than Helen’s beauty in April sunlight The gods love the spotless dreams of a maiden. V.