THE LITTLE REVIEW Literature Drama Music Art MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR MAY, 1914 On Behalf of Literature DeWitt C. Wing The Challenge of Emma Goldman Margaret C. Anderson Chloroform Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "True to Life" Edith Wyatt Impression George Soule Art and Life George Burman Foster Patriots Parke Forley "Change" at the Fine Arts Theatre Correspondence: The Vision of Wells Another View of "The Dark Flower" Dr. Foster's Articles on Nietzsche Lawton Parker Eunice Tietjens New York Letter George Soule Union vs. Union Privileges Henry Blackman Sell Book Discussion: Mr. Chesterton's Prejudices Dr. Flexner on Prostitution The Critics' Critic M. H. P. Sentence Reviews Letters to The Little Review The Best Sellers 25 cents a copy THE LITTLE REVIEW Fine Arts Building CHICAGO $2.50 a year THE LITTLE REVIEW Vol. I MAY, 1914 No. 3 Copyright 1914, by Margaret C. Anderson. On Behalf of Literature DEWITT C. WING It is well-nigh incredible that Edwin Björkman, of his own free will, should have written the "open letter to President Wilson on behalf of American literature" which appeared in the April Century. Whenever a man of promise and power shows the white feather those who admire him suffer a keen, personal pain. And yet Mr. Björkman is by no means the last man whom I should expect to make a plea for an official recognition, through honors, prizes, and subsidies, of an American literature. A conventional literary man could have done it, but a great man never.