THE LITTLE REVIEW _Literature Drama Music Art_ MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR SEPTEMBER, 1914 Poems Maxwell Bodenheim Armageddon Women in War Sonya Levien Children of War Eunice Tietjens Grocer Shops and Souls The Democrat With Apologies to Mr. Galsworthy The Constructive Reasoner " The Crucified Dionysus Alexander S. Kaun Poems Amy Lowell The Poetry of Revolt Charles Ashleigh The Nietzschean Love of Eternity George Burman Foster The Restaurant Violin George Soule Editorials "Baboosya" Obituary of a Poet Floyd Dell Humbugging the Public Henry Blackman Sell New York Letter George Soule Book Discussion: The Gospel According to Moore Chekhov and Andreyev Horace Traubel's Whitman "Midstream" A Defense of the Grotesque The Reader Critic Published Monthly 15 cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Publisher Fine Arts Building CHICAGO $1.50 a year THE LITTLE REVIEW Vol. I SEPTEMBER, 1914 No. 6 Copyright, 1914, by Margaret C. Anderson. Poems MAXWELL BODENHEIM After Feeling Deux Arabesques by Debussy I stuffed my ears with faded stars From the little universe of music pent in me, For your fiendish ripple must be heard but once: Passing twice through ears, it looses Its thin divine kinkiness.... I felt it undulate my soul-- Lavender water, pitted and heaved to huge, uneasy circles. Let Me Not Live Too Long