March 1909

Articles

• The Delusion of Militarism

  “Was it a form of national lunacy, this frenzied outpouring of national treasure for the engines of destruction? Was it an hallucination, this feverish conviction that only by guns can a nation’s dignity be symbolized, and her place in the world’s life and action be honorably maintained?”

  Charles Edward Jefferson

• The Heart of the Race Problem

  “The problem, How to maintain the institution of chattel slavery, ceased to be at Appomattox; the problem, How to maintain the social, industrial, and civic inferiority of the descendants of chattel slaves, succeeded it, and is the race problem of the South at the present time. There is no other.”

  Quincy Ewing

• The Private Soldier

  Alice Brown

• Physical Science of to-Day

  John Trowbridge

• The Hotel

  Harriet Monroe

• The Industrial Dilemma: Ii: The Railroads and Education

  James O. Fagan

• Cavour and Bismarck

  William Roscoe Thaylr

• The Ladder

  Ernest Poole

• The Diary of Gideon Welles: Ii

• A Time Withdrawn

  Richard Watson Gilder

• On the Water Front

  Lucy Huston Sturdevant

• The Disorganization of the Book-Trade

  Hugo Münsterberg

• Desert Asia

  R. W. Pumpelly

• Society

  Rollin Lynde Hartt

• A Day With Professor Child

  Francis B. Gummere

• A Defense of Dogberry

• The Tyranny of Facts

• My Architectural Friends

• These Are My Troubles, Mr. Wesley

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